It’s surprising how quickly public opinion can change. Winding the clocks back 12 months, many of us would have looked at a masked individual in public with suspicion. One consequence of this is that ...

Since the pandemic began, there have been dozens of published research articles detailing the difficulty of recognizing masked faces. I reviewed some of these findings in two prior posts, here and ...

Bank robbers wear masks for a reason. Masks make it harder to recognize a person. You may have noticed this over the last two years as the Covid pandemic has raged. You fail to recognize a friend when ...

A recent development in the realm of facial recognition technology addresses the challenges posed by face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, promising to recognize the face despite the mask, as ...