recognition

Technology can only do so much – it still needs human input. Credit: Arten Oleshko/Shutterstock Police officers’ ability to recognise and locate…

Instagram is a visual service; it’s a feed of photos and videos and memes that users take in, but the company is rethinking how to optimize a…

Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: “gait recognition” software that uses people’s body shapes and how they walk to…

Smart devices can seem dumb if they don’t understand where they are or what people around them are doing. Carnegie Mellon University researchers say…

  Lenovo has opened an unmanned convenience store in China, using it as a testbed for trialling facial-recognition, e-payment, Internet of Things…

  IN THE brick-and-mortar world, retail chains and shopping malls have long relied on counting the number of occupied parking lots to estimate the…

China is increasingly dependent on facial recognition systems to name and shame citizens who jaywalk, but it reportedly hit a snag this week. A…

The activities of tech companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft are being increasingly scrutinised and criticised by their own employees. As the…

There’s some turmoil brewing over at Miami-based facial recognition startup Kairos. Late last month, New World Angels President and Kairos board…

Face and fingerprint recognition is now becoming mainstream. In fact, it’s so mainstream that phones are getting rid of their home buttons completely…