Facial recognition software is becoming more advanced and ubiquitous—I mean, you can unlock your phone with your face now. As this progresses, researchers are trying to make systems more secure by getting ahead of any potential hacks, including creating an infrared light-projecting baseball cap that can fool a face recognition system into thinking you’re the musician Moby.
Source: vice.com
Last year, the United States alone imported more than US $107 million worth of fresh papayas as the world’s largest papaya import market. The computer vision software could enable papaya growers to maximize the value of their fruit by sending the ripestpapayas to local markets and saving less ripe papayas for export, says Douglas Fernandes Barbin, a researcher in the department of food engineering at the University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. But he and his colleagues also want to help individual shoppers get their money’s worth in grocery aisles.
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