Bias study hopes to inspire development of fairer facial recognition technology

A study looking into the accuracy and bias of gender and skin colour in automatic face recognition algorithms tested with real-world data has found that some demographics show higher false positive or false negative rates.  Facial recognition has been routinely used by both private and governmental organisations worldwide. Automatic face recognition can be used for … Read more

Facial recognition for remote ID verification wins Africa Prize

Charlette N’Guessan is the first woman to win the prestigious prize since it was established in 2014, and the first winner from Ghana. The prize was awarded for BACE API, which uses facial recognition to verify identities remotely. N’Guessan and her team decided to go ahead with the project in 2018, after they discovered that … Read more