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 ...

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 ...

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 ...