Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks. The Chinese facial recognition company Hanwang claims it can recognize people wearing masks:. The company now says its masked facial recognition program has reached 95 percent accuracy in lab tests, and even claims that it is more accurate in real life, where its cameras take multiple photos of a person if the first attempt to identify them fails.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/03/facial_recognit_3.html
Interesting info. Thank you!
Maybe true. But the word “claims” is also interesting.
I would bet that FR software can still achieve some level of success. I would bet that the greater the percentage of the face that is obscure, the worse the performance. In particular, the greater the number of “landmark” points of the face that are covered, the worse the performance.
In the era of Q, I question everything. All of this makes me wonder who wants us to think it works really well and who would prefer that we think it doesn’t work very well.