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Google’s Now Playing song recognition was clever when it premiered late in 2017, but it had its limits. When it premiered on the Pixel 2, for instance, its on-device database could only recognize a relatively small number of songs. Now, however, that same technology is available in the cloud through Sound Search — and it’s […]
A British Airways breach, a fake Army site, and more of the week’s top security news. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b93093763230f4c4de50dc6/master/pass/Facial%20recognition%20skin%20tone.jpg
A new facial recognition tool by RealNetworks aims to keep kids safe in school. But privacy experts fear the unchecked surveillance of kids could go awry. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4d3359f4e6546add647f4d/master/pass/FacialRecog-Schools-Security-525409577.jpg
“Facial recognition will require the public and private sectors alike to step up – and to act,” says Brad Smith, the company’s president. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b47d9d16866850b1bfbb0ac/master/pass/BradSmith-Microsoft-Biz-950022724.jpg
Enlarge / A reporter buys a Capital Gazette newspaper on June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Maryland. (credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) Maryland authorities used their facial recognition capabilities to identity Jarrod Ramos, the suspect in the Capital Gazette shooting, which left four journalists and one newspaper sales associate dead on Thursday. When he was apprehended at […]
The Orlando Police Department is one of the law enforcement groups that has been testing Amazon’s facial recognition service Rekognition, using it in its headquarters and in downtown Orlando, though supposedly only with officers that agreed to test the system. However, the pilot program expired last week and the department says it has not yet […]
At the Re-Work Deep Learning Summit in Boston, Chris Lott, an artificial intelligence researcher at Qualcomm, gave a glimpse into his team’s work on a state-of-the-air voice recognition program. The system, which works locally on a smartphone or other portable device, comprises two kinds of neural networks: a recurrent neural network (RNN) wh…Read More
(Reuters) — High school students in one Chinese school may want to think twice before dozing off in class. Artificially intelligent cameras with facial recognition tools will be watching. The Hangzhou No. 11 Middle School has installed a “smart classroom behavior management system”, which captures students’ expressions and movements, analyzin…Read More
Enlarge / A police facial recognition van is seen at the UEFA Champions Festival at Cardiff Bay on June 2, 2017 in Cardiff, Wales. (credit: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) A British police agency is defending (this link is inoperable for the moment) its use of facial recognition technology at the June 2017 Champions League soccer final […]
Training deep learning models to recognize image,s as well as objects within those images, takes quite a bit of effort. Often, each training image has to be labeled by humans and when you’re using millions of images, that process becomes rather labor-intensive. Scaling up to billions of images becomes nearly impossible. So, Facebook has been […]
