Paper Masks Are Fooling Facial Recognition Software

Paper Masks Are Fooling Facial Recognition Software

4 years ago
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https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/346056

Facial recognition is being widely embraced as a security tool — law enforcement and corporations alike are rolling it out to keep tabs on who's accessing airports, stores, and smartphones.

As it turns out, the technology is fallible. Researchers with the artificial-intelligence firm Kneron announced that they were able to fool some facial-recognition systems using a printed mask depicting a different person's face.