Facial Recognition Tech Is Growing Stronger, Thanks to Your Face
►https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/technology/databases-faces-facial-recognition-technology.html
Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become a vast ecosystem fueling the spread of facial recognition technology.
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Documents released last Sunday revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials employed facial recognition technology to scan motorists’ photos to identify undocumented immigrants. The F.B.I. also spent more than a decade using such systems to compare driver’s license and visa photos against the faces of suspected criminals, according to a Government Accountability Office report last month. On Wednesday, a congressional hearing tackled the government’s use of the technology.
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One database, which dates to 2014, was put together by researchers at Stanford. It was called Brainwash, after a San Francisco cafe of the same name, where the researchers tapped into a camera. Over three days, the camera took more than 10,000 images, which went into the database, the researchers wrote in a 2015 paper. The paper did not address whether cafe patrons knew their images were being taken and used for research. (The cafe has closed.)
The Stanford researchers then shared "Brainwash. According to research papers, it was used in China by academics associated with the National University of Defense Technology and Megvii, an artificial intelligence company that The New York Times previously reported has provided surveillance technology for monitoring Uighurs.
#face_recognition #databases #bases_de_données #reconnaissance_faciale #msceleb #dataset
Dataset created “in the wild”
▻https://megapixels.cc/datasets
▻https://megapixels.cc/datasets/msceleb
End-to-end people detection in crowded scenes
▻https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.04878.pdf