Face-mask recognition has arrived—for better or worse New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy.

Finding ways around the problem There are currently no usable photo data sets of mask-wearing people that can be used to train and evaluate facial recognition systems.

Mask detector running on a Jetson Nano 2GB using AlwaysAI toolkit for transfer learning on a face detection network -- showing a correctly detected un-masked face.

New research suggests face masks are hampering facial recognition systems. The algorithms never accounted for a pandemic.

Face masks are already known to stop the spread of coronavirus. Apparently, they can also make it much harder for facial-recognition software to identify you, too. This is the key finding of a new ...

A study of 65 face recognition algorithms on masked photos found they were as good as the top performers in 2017 with no masks. ... Alfred Ng Dec. 1, 2020 7:30 a.m. PT 3 min read ...