Creating an avatar from a 3-D selfie
Generating a 3D duplicate of someone without the aid of a Hollywood studio: this is the challenge taken up by EPFL researchers, who have successfully condensed an expensive and complex process to use...
View ArticleWhy the long face? Horses and humans share facial expressions
Horses share some surprisingly similar facial expressions to humans and chimps, according to new University of Sussex research.
View ArticleNew method captures facial details at high fidelity and real time
Forehead wrinkles that rapidly deepen and crow's feet that appear suddenly around the eyes might distress the average person, but the ability to quickly and realistically incorporate such details in a...
View ArticleHow bird evolution swapped snouts for beaks
Birds are among the most successful creatures on the planet, with more than 10,000 species living across the globe, occupying a dizzying array of niches and eating everything from large animals to...
View ArticleJournalist puts Windows 10 face recognition feature to test
If Windows Hello could talk it would possibly be bragging: Hello Mary. Hello Merry. What, you think I can't tell?
View ArticleOldest Pharaonic mummy from the Museum of Florence finally has a face
Forensic techniques by international scientists have led to the facial reconstruction of the oldest preserved mummy in the Egyptian Museum of Florence.
View ArticleYour face is part of Australia's 'national security weapon'—should you be...
Australian government plans to increase the use of facial recognition in its counter-terrorism strategy raise concerns about privacy and how the technology will be used in everyday policing.
View ArticleAnimated characters help patients discuss ailments, levels of pain
The company's vision initially seems fanciful: Create applications for health care featuring animated characters that can understand language in all its complexity, from context to regional idioms,...
View ArticleVeterinary orthopedist borrows from human medicine to repair canine facial...
To treat dogs with shattered facial bones, veterinary orthopedist Randy Boudrieau has taken a page from human medicine, using titanium plates narrower than a pencil to repair the fractures.
View ArticleFacial cues factor into future retail pay
Trying to score a pay rise? A UWA study has found having attractive, trustworthy or dominant facial traits can increase a person's pay in retail workplaces.
View ArticleFacial recognition software solves Gaskell silhouette mystery
On the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Gaskell (12 November 1865), a long-held mystery surrounding the true identity of a silhouette suspected to be of the Victorian novelist has been solved.
View ArticleFrom meh to ugh, facial emotion in pic pegged by Microsoft tool
Microsoft has come up with a new tool that can identify human emotions in pictures. Recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have made this possible. What does the person feel?...
View ArticleOne in a trillion odds of having a real-life doppelganger
While many people may think they have a doppelgänger (look-alike), new University of Adelaide research has proven the likelihood that two people share the exact same face is in excess of one in a...
View ArticleBeware, poker face: Automatic system spots micro-expressions
Humans have a tough enough time figuring out one another. We actually use two languages to communicate, through words and through facial expressions and sometimes they don't match.
View ArticleDogs know that smile on your face
Dogs can tell the difference between happy and angry human faces, according to a new study in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on February 12. The discovery represents the first solid evidence...
View ArticleStudy finds significant facial variation in pre-Columbian South America
A team of anthropology researchers has found significant differences in facial features between seven different pre-Columbian peoples they evaluated from what is now Peru – disproving a longstanding...
View ArticleAs hacking grows, biometric security gains momentum
With hackers seemingly running rampant online and millions of users compromised, efforts for stronger online identity protection—mainly using biometrics—are gaining momentum.
View ArticleChina's Alibaba shows off pay-with-your-face technology at IT fair
China's Internet tycoon Jack Ma, founder of giant online merchant Alibaba, gave a glimpse of the future when he demonstrated a new e-payment system using facial recognition at the CeBIT IT fair in...
View ArticleWindows 10 devices to allow sign in with face, iris
The new Windows 10 operating system will allow users to sign in to a device without a password by using biometrics, including facial recognition, Microsoft announced Tuesday.
View ArticleResearch seeks to make robotic 'human patient simulators'
A young doctor leans over a patient who has been in a serious car accident and invariably must be experiencing pain. The doctor's trauma team examines the patient's pelvis and rolls her onto her side...
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