Faces restored, masks lifted: How police is training AI to be the algorithmic cop

From digitally aging photos to nab murderers to recreating faces, AI is entering the beat as the trusted investigative ally of the police, writes Medha Shri ...
TMCnet

Bridging Silence: A Real-Time Sign Language to English Text Translation System Using Python, OpenCV, and Convolutional Neural Networks

Bridging communication gaps between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals is an important challenge in assistive ...
The Debrief

New DARPA-Funded AI Tool Can Defeat Modern Facial Recognition Systems With Photorealistic Images

A novel artificial intelligence tool funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) may offer a surprising new form of digital camouflage in a world increasingly monitored by ...
TechRepublic

Amazon’s Ring Adds Facial Recognition, Raising Privacy Questions

Your doorbell may soon greet your visitors by name… whether you want it to or not. Amazon’s Ring is rolling out a facial recognition feature called Familiar Faces. And while it promises helpful alerts ...
TechCrunch

Amazon’s Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells

Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...
The New York Times

Flying Abroad? Get Ready for a Biometric ‘Corridor.’

New facial-recognition tools being tested at Orlando International Airport could soon be keeping track of travelers at departure gates across the country. By Christine Chung Reporting from Orlando, ...
GitHub

Misuse of quit() in api.py; Use of SystemExit(1) + narrow exception handling

Using ImportError instead of except Exception can prevent masking of unrelated errors, like syntax errors, that may happen during an import. Since the block calls an ...
WBEZ

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from ...
Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

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Nextgov

CBP expands facial recognition for non-citizens at borders

U.S. citizens can opt out of the facial recognition process, which CBP intends to expand to all air, sea and land ports. Customs and Border Protection is now authorized to require biometrics from all ...
Reuters

US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens

WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud ...