The Latest News, Views, and Insights from Kairos

Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well. 

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The ScarySelfie App

Booo!! Happy almost Halloween to everyone! A California-based company has released a selfie app that uses facial recognition to juxtapose the image of your face with spooky Halloween makeup. For all those last-minute costume seekers, you can now get the spooky look without going through all the work.

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Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well. 

Our Favorite Story of the Week

 

Can Facebook be used to regulate emotions?

Scientists at The Ohio State University found that when we are in a bad mood, we tend to look for facial expressions of people that are less happy than we are at the moment. Research of this type will help propel the use case for facial emotion detection.

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Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.

 

Our Favorite Story of the Week

 

Has facial recognition paranoia gotten stupid?

Despite the provocative headline, this article presents a fresh and unique point of view about the privacy implications of services like Google StreetView. Are we protecting the right to privacy or the right to not be embarrassed?

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Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.

  

Our Favorite Story of the Week

 

Curious on the impact of facial recognition software on selfies?

You can now take a course on "selfies". This week's class focuses on the impact of facial detection and recognition on selfies. It may seem silly, but the folks at SelfieCity have built a beautiful visualization tool to analyze the facial detection data taken from selfies submitted to their site.

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Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.

 

Our Favorite Story of the Week

 

Helping the Faceless

Facial recognition gets its fair share of bad press. Constant references to Minority Report and Big Brother are common. At Kairos we believe in the power of recognition and how that can be used to help society, not just let you in a door or catch a bad guy. To that end, we were drawn to a story we read this week about two guys in India who are using facial recognition to make a difference in the world and help end child-trafficking.

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