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just now · via nature.com
Kolkata: An AI-powered attendance system is set to be introduced in state schools to ensure accurate and efficient tracking.
The department believes the technology will reduce the time teachers spend taking attendance, particularly in classrooms with large numbers of students.
An official said the school education department’s plan for an AI-driven automated attendance system was aimed at streamlining student tracking through the app.
The AI-integrated app, equipped with facial recognition technology, will scan the image, cross-reference student faces against a pre-existing digital database, and generate a complete attendance list.
The system is likely to be launched in 100 state-aided schools as a pilot project.
4m ago · via education.economictimes.indiatimes.com
U.S. Marines and Sailors with 1st Marine Logistics Group pose for a group photo during the 1st MLG quarterly combat readiness award recognition ceremony on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Nov. 9, 2026.
The ceremony honored the unit's top Marines and Sailors for the second, third, and fourth quarters of 2026, celebrating those whose outstanding performance significantly enhanced overall mission effectiveness.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl.
Destiny Perez)
4m ago · via dvidshub.net
A modified Delphi consensus process has resulted in the development of the SCIEPR checklist, a 35-item tool designed to standardize chest radiograph interpretation in healthcare facilities lacking onsite radiologist expertise.
The instrument takes its name from standardization, communication, image evaluation, and pattern recognition, incorporating items identified by experts as essential for chest radiograph assessment.
Standardized interpretation of chest radiographs represents a critical clinical need, particularly in healthcare environments that operate without onsite specialist radiology services.
Subject of Research: Development of a checklist for chest radiograph interpretation Article Title: Development of a checklist for interpreting chest radiographs: a modified Delphi technique Article References: Sethole, K. M., Mshunqane, N., & Kekana, M. (2026).
Development of a checklist for interpreting chest radiographs: a modified Delphi technique.
2h ago · via bioengineer.org
A statement from Thames Valley Police today (Tuesday, November 10) said: "Our Live Facial Recognition (LFR) vans will be coming to Cowley Road next Tuesday.
"The specialist LFR team will be working alongside our local officers to identify known suspects, deter crime and help keep our communities safer for everyone.
READ MORE: Trial for Oxford hotelier charged with murdering mother begins today "We make sure to let you know before our LFR vans are in use, so everyone stays informed about what’s happening.
"While this can mean some individuals choose to avoid us, the vans can help deter crime and keep the area safer.
"We’re always happy to show you around and explain how LFR is used fairly and responsibly."
4h ago · via oxfordmail.co.uk
Commercial carriers and ETC The majority of motor carriers – especially larger ones – set up fleet ETC accounts to process payments automatically.
As artificial intelligence continues to proliferate, many traditional data systems are being modernised through AI integration—including OCR technology.
AI native and traditional systems An AI native system is fundamentally different from traditional systems.
Unlike traditional systems, an AI system learns continuously as operating conditions change.
AI native motor carrier solution A traditional systems approach to commercial carrier toll collection is heavily dependent on OCR.
13h ago · via itsinternational.com
Supermarket chain Woolworths is considering a trial of facial recognition technology in two stores in Canberra in an attempt to better protect staff members from violent offenders in their stores.
"The aim is to use facial recognition technology to actively monitor for repeat violent and aggressive offenders who frequent our stores to protect team safety," she said.
Ms Faorlin said the facial technology would scan every customer as they entered either the Woden or Gungahlin stores, creating a temporary biometric profile.
He said that facial recognition technology could help combat violence "as long as it's done within very strict guidelines as part of a social licensing of it".
Ms Faorlin said Woolworths would be "really transparent" about the trial, and added that signage would be displayed outside the two supermarkets.
13h ago · via abc.net.au
The Mobile City Council is considering a $67,000 renewal contract with Clearview AI, a facial-recognition software company used by law enforcement.
Clearview AI says law enforcement uses its technology after a crime has occurred, not for real-time surveillance.
The Mobile Police Department declined our request for an interview to discuss how it uses facial recognition technology.
Under the settlement, Illinois residents can ask Clearview AI to block their facial data from appearing in search results.
Records show Alabama Law Enforcement Agency has paid Clearview AI since December 2019.
15h ago · via mynbc15.com
People passing through transport hubs or attending crowded public events could be subjected to live facial recognition as the UK prepares to expand its use in immigration enforcement.
Here's what to know Facial images captured by LFR cameras would be checked against immigration enforcement watchlists, a system outlined in Home Office policy documents cited by Tech Times UK.
Immigration enforcement conducted three trials at the port of Holyhead, North Wales, from November 2025 through February.
More background The plans accompany a decision by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to increase immigration enforcement funding twofold and expand staffing by 60%.
"Immigration enforcement and police forces are exploiting an absence of national legislation regulating uses of AI technologies, including facial recognition, in the public sector."
15h ago · via thecooldown.com
Video, 00:01:19Who is the suspected Chinese spy at centre of the Nvidia investigation?
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'I treat all these people like they are victims', says doctor who treated Krakow shooting suspect.
Video, 00:02:11'I treat all these people like they are victims', says doctor who treated Krakow shooting suspect How the deadly shooting in Krakow unfolded.
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18h ago · via bbc.co.uk
Open-access orthopedic journals overwhelmingly publish images of light skin, according to a large-scale analysis of figures published between 2015 and 2024.
Researchers screened 40,674 figures from 14 open-access orthopedic journals and used an artificial intelligence pipeline to classify 2,025 images containing visible skin.
Compared with both a diverse-population reference and United States population estimates, light skin was significantly overrepresented and dark skin significantly underrepresented, with p values below 0.001 for both comparisons.
Both groups still significantly overrepresented light skin and underrepresented medium and dark skin against their respective references.
Subject of Research: Skin color representation in open-access orthopedic journal figures Article Title: Skin color representation in orthopedic literature Article References: Goyal, R. K., Adio, A.
1d ago · via bioengineer.org
UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s use of facial recognition is part of an international shift towards cameras that trigger action.
The retailer says facial recognition is operating in 40 stores, with plans to extend it to up to 200 by the end of 2026.
What the cameras actually recognise The first distinction is fundamental: facial recognition does not establish that somebody is shoplifting.
NIST’s facial recognition evaluations explain that poor lighting and camera angles can contribute to missed matches and demographic differences.
Facial recognition is therefore one element of a broader visual security strategy, rather than a universal answer to retail losses.
1d ago · via mvpromedia.com
Philadelphia International Airport has become the first U.S. airport to implement a new Global Entry processing system that replaces traditional self-service kiosks with biometric facial recognition technology, according to a MyChesCo report.
The system uses cameras equipped with facial comparison technology to confirm travelers' identities and Global Entry membership as they enter the designated processing area.
CBP said the technology is designed to improve passenger flow, accelerate processing and strengthen border security.
The agency plans to expand the system to as many as 38 terminals at 30 high-volume airports, including some international locations offering CBP Preclearance services.
Global Entry provides expedited customs processing for preapproved, low-risk international travelers who have completed background checks and enrollment interviews.
1d ago · via kioskmarketplace.com
Amritsar school students build Wi-Fi-controlled robot car and facial-recognition attendance system.
(AI Image) Four students from a government school in Amritsar have developed two technology projects using resources available in their classroom: a Wi-Fi-controlled robotic car and a facial-recognition attendance system.
The students behind the projects are Gurnaz Kaur, Kushpreet Singh, Harmandeep Singh and Manjot Preet Singh.
While Harmandeep and Manjot worked on the robotic car, Gurnaz and Kushpreet developed the attendance system.
How students built a Wi-Fi-controlled robot car Harmandeep Singh and Manjot Preet Singh developed a robotic car that can be operated through a mobile phone, without requiring a separate remote control.
1d ago · via timesofindia.indiatimes.com
"This can account for a large part of someone’s life and to have that ignored because they don’t fit the public perception can be extremely degrading."
Both women are part of NSFT’s Veterans Integrated Service, which supports veterans across the region through female-only groups.
Ms Brosnan said: "It is so important to recognise that veterans don’t always fit the image of elderly men from past wars.
"I know what it feels like not to be believed or to feel that I don’t fit that image."
The support groups run bi-monthly across Norfolk and Suffolk.
1d ago · via edp24.co.uk
Researchers have demonstrated a vertical organic field-effect transistor that monolithically integrates a volatile, nonlinear optical reservoir with a linear, nonvolatile electrical readout within a single device footprint.
This structural separation ensures that the reservoir dynamics and memory retention can be optimized independently within the same physical structure.
This spectral diversity allows a single device to project multi-wavelength optical sequences into orthogonal reservoir subspaces, effectively enabling multi-wavelength grouped reservoir computing.
The output of each virtual node was derived directly from experimentally measured optical conductance responses to ensure physical fidelity.
Orthogonally regulated multi-timescale reservoir and linear nonvolatile readout in a vertical transistor for dynamic machine vision.
1d ago · via bioengineer.org
Megaspeed is part of Nvidia's cloud partner network (NCP), through which it buys equipment from the American chipmaker and rents computing power to AI developers.
On its website, the company describes itself as "a core business partner of NVIDIA's computing power cloud business in the Asia-Pacific region".
Its offerings include distributed AI training, inference acceleration, model evaluation and cloud computing services.
Megaspeed also says its partnership with Nvidia gives it access to the chipmaker's products, services and cloud computing capabilities.
It offers different business models, including monthly rentals, customised services, private cloud computing management and charges for leasing computing capacity.
1d ago · via moneycontrol.com
Live Facial Recognition (LFR) vans will be deployed in Chatham on Saturday 14 November 2026 as Kent Police continue targeted operations to track down wanted individuals and reduce crime in the town centre.
The upcoming deployment forms part of the force’s ongoing Clear, Hold, Build initiative aimed at disrupting criminal activity and deterring offenders across Medway.
During a two-day LFR operation in September, officers made 18 arrests using the real-time scanning technology, which matches faces against specific police watchlists.
The technology is used to identify suspects connected to criminal activity in Kent, including individuals wanted on court warrants, violent crimes, drug offences, burglary, robbery, sexual offences, domestic abuse, weapon possession, and recall to prison.
District Commander, Chief Inspector Gary Woodward, said: ‘Our previous use of LFR vans led to the arrest of some individuals who pose the greatest risk to our residents.
1d ago · via localrags.co.uk
The second component is a first-in-first-out memory bank with capacity K times the mini-batch size.
The experimental evidence spans five primary benchmarks, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet, CUB200-2011, and Stanford Dogs, plus a supplementary small-data setting built from PASCAL VOC 2005, evaluated with ResNet-18, ResNet-50, ConvNeXt-T, and two TinyViT transformers.
The authors also replaced the two-view augmentation strategy used by most contrastive methods with single-view encoding, letting the memory bank supply the extra comparison samples.
Future work will explore adaptive or learnable kappa and more sophisticated memory mechanisms such as staleness-aware weighting.
Sigmoid-based supervised contrastive learning with von mises–fisher similarity and memory banks for visual recognition.
1d ago · via bioengineer.org
Effective grassland ecological management, pest risk assessment, and targeted pest control rely fundamentally on accurate species-level identification, because different grasshopper species display marked variations in habitat preferences, seasonal occurrence patterns, flight behavior, and destructive potential.
To establish a rigorous empirical foundation for automated taxonomic discrimination, the research team constructed the Grasshopper Fine-grained Recognition Dataset from adult specimens preserved within the entomological collection at Hebei University.
Spatial attention pools channel statistics to accentuate localized body structures, while channel attention applies multilayer perceptrons to recalibrate feature weights globally.
Subject of Research: Fine-grained species identification of grasshoppers using a morphology-aware deep learning vision framework Article Title: From morphology to species identity: CA-MFE-SwinT for fine-grained grasshopper recognition Article References: Liu, M., Zhang, Y., Chen, J., Yin, H., Zou, B., Hao, H., Xiong, P., & Li, X.
From morphology to species identity: CA-MFE-SwinT for fine-grained grasshopper recognition.
1d ago · via bioengineer.org