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Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you

By Vijayan Asari, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton

If you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to an event at Madison Square Garden in New York – say, an NBA Finals game – one aspect of your visit will be having your face scanned by a facial recognition system.

Major event venues are increasingly using the technology. Some, like Madison Square Garden, use it for surveillance purposes, and some, like Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia,…

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