facial recognition

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Facial recognition refers to image processing systems thart are able to identify faces in images or video and then identify who the person is, using some form of data bases of faces. This can be very useful, for exampel, in naming family members on a personal photo album, or preventing a terrorust attack. However, there are also worries about issues of privacy and potential misue by authoritarian governments. These worries have beeb made more severe guven that many facial recognition systems exhibit leels of bias often being less effective for darker skins and hence more likely to erroneoulsy flag a black person as a suspected criminal.

Used in Chap. 1: page 7; Chap. 12: pages 194, 195; Chap. 20: pages 342, 344

Also known as face recognition