Tag Archives: face recognition

When I was a kid it used to be: Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? Time has gone by and now it seems that you can ask (a similar question) Artificial Intelligence to get an assessment on your “beauty”. Go on the Qoves website …

The pandemic and the work shift to the cyberspace (working from home became the norm for several companies) has opened the door to cons that are using “advanced” technology to trick people into activities that would have been “unthinkable” just two years ago. This is the case of a con …

Take Facial Recognition and mix it with Affective Computing, sprinkle with a bit of Artificial Intelligence add plenty of sensors and what you get is the new paradigm of computer to human interaction, a paradigm that is already starting to reshape many areas and generate a few concerns although it …

From time to time I read on a newspaper, or hear on television, concern on privacy. Well, privacy is long gone and the more time passes the more information about ourselves are gathered. I thought of this once again as I looked at the US Atlas of Surveillance – go ahead …

Photography I was born in the age of film rolls. There were rolls with film for 12, 20 and 36 shots and before shooting a shot you always asked: “will it be worth it? Should I wait for a better opportunity?” The peak of film photography was in 2001 with …

Using biometric parameters applied to faces has moved from pure research (first attempts in the sixties) to niche applications (it started in military environment) to mass market with the adoption of face recognition in the iPhone X. I am using one and I can say it works pretty well in …

The research carried out at the University of Toronto Scarborough seems to come from a science fiction book. The researchers wanted to look inside a “brain” to see what the brain was seeing, i.e. the image the eyes of that person were transmitting to the brain. The results have been …

Every week a new drone is announced and although most of them look alike (at least to my untrained eye) a clear trend seems to emerge: they are getting easier and easier to interact with. DJI has announced, and it is ready for order, SPARK, the smallest drone in their …