Abstract: Facial Action Unit (AU) recognition involves identifying subtle muscle movements corresponding to different AUs. Recent approaches have focused on localizing AUs using predefined Regions of ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach incorporating Facial Expression Recognition (FER) to improve emotional and contextual understanding in Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) model-generated ...

Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

When companies and governments expand data collection in the name of security, sometimes the only way you can object is to opt out. And with facial recognition, the time to object is now. I'm an ...

Meta is considering adding facial recognition to its smart glasses. Internal documents from Meta suggest the company may time the launch to mitigate public scrutiny. The technology raises serious ...

The British Transport Police (BTP) will deploy live facial recognition (LFR) technology at key transport hubs across London as part of a six-month “trial”. The first deployment took place at London ...

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office plans to sign a contract for facial recognition technology, surprising some county officials. Sheriff Denita Ball signed an intent to contract with Biometrica, a ...

On Monday, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office quietly signed paperwork signaling it wants in on facial-recognition technology, edging the agency closer to a contract with a biometric vendor after ...

Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion's US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News. Meta Platforms Inc. thinks we’re too distracted for a proper debate on ...

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...

A memo from last May — revealed Friday by The New York Times — details plans by Meta’s Reality Labs, a research unit that works on its AI-powered smart glasses, to introduce the feature when it ...