The Annual Dinner provides an opportunity to pause and celebrate the individuals, businesses and organizations whose service, resilience and leadership strengthen Delta County.
Several awards will be presented throughout the evening, including the Delta Force Outstanding Contribution Award, sponsored by the Daily Press, and the Educational Excellence Award, sponsored by the Community Foundation for Delta County.
Billerud will sponsor the Community Ambassador Award, recognizing exceptional efforts to welcome others and positively represent our waterfront community.
These graduates represent the newest group of leaders prepared to contribute their talents, voices and ideas to articulate how Delta County will look in the future.
Tickets are $45 and can be purchased by stopping by or calling the Delta County Chamber at 906-786-2192.
Sep 26, 2026 · via dailypress.net
Earlier this year, the Police and Crime Committee here at City Hall discovered some shocking figures.
In 2025, there were more than 4,500 incidents of violence against women and girls on public transport reported.
As a member of the Committee, I heard first-hand from experts about some of the horrifying experiences women face on public transport.
Stratford has been chosen as one of a small number of stations where Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology will be trialled.
That's why Stratford being chosen as a trial location matters.
Sep 26, 2026 · via thisislocallondon.co.uk
Research shows that nearly half of U.S. adults’ faces are already stored in facial recognition databases, and that Black, Brown, and Asian individuals are up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified by a facial recognition algorithm than white men.
“Facial recognition technology is racist, misidentifying Black, Brown, and Asian residents and pinning them as suspects in crimes they did not commit,” said Representative Tlaib.
I’m proud to reintroduce this bill that will ban facial recognition technology and protect all our civil liberties.”
They’re using the very same facial recognition technologies that regularly misidentify people of color, leading to unjust arrests and detainment.
The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act is cosponsored in the Senate by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.
Sep 26, 2026 · via merkley.senate.gov
NEW YORK: Humans can reliably identify a cat, butterfly, car or other objects and living creatures even when they appear as nothing more than a rough silhouette.
For artificial intelligence (AI), however, this remains an impossible task.
Modern image-recognition programmes perform significantly worse than human observers when it comes to perceiving overall shapes and outlines, according to a research team led at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, writing in the journal iScience.
Sep 26, 2026 · via thestar.com.my
There’s growing concern human smuggling operations have turned to the water, landing in ritzy California coastal communities like Newport Beach with complex plans to bring illegal migrants into unassuming neighborhoods.
An initial search of the boat revealed indicators the vessel was being used for human smuggling.
Federal officials said human traffickers in Mexico commonly work with organized crime syndicates to move illegal migrants into the US.
Newport Beach City Council member Erik Weigand said the steady traffic of pleasure boats in Newport Harbor may be used as cover for smugglers.
Weigand is seeking support for a project to install security cameras at the mouth of Newport Harbor to protect the local waterway from smugglers.
Sep 26, 2026 · via nypost.com
The baseline scenario for the smartphone 3D camera market from 2026 to 2035 anticipates robust growth, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2%, reaching a market index of 220 by 2035 (2025=100).
The mechanism is that smartphone 3D cameras offer a convenient alternative to dedicated equipment, enabling faster data capture and sharing.
For full methodological details and benchmark tables, see the latest IndexBox Smartphone 3D Camera market report.
This report is an independent strategic market study that provides a structured, commercially grounded analysis of the global market for Smartphone 3D Camera.
What this report is about At its core, this report explains how the market for Smartphone 3D Camera actually functions.
Sep 25, 2026 · via indexbox.io
Moldova’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is proposing a national facial image registry to help law enforcement identify suspects, investigate crimes, find missing people and identify human remains using facial biometrics.
The proposed Facial Image Registry, or RIF, would be more than a repository of photographs.
The system would maintain separate collections of identified and unidentified facial images, with each image assigned a reference number.
On paper, that design gives authorities a searchable facial identification capability without automatically enrolling the entire population.
In that environment, a centralized facial identification system raises questions about function creep and how restrictions on searches will be independently enforced.
Sep 25, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
She alleges investigators relied on the facial recognition result to pursue her arrest despite evidence that she was in Tennessee when the crimes occurred.
Police in Fargo and neighboring West Fargo had been investigating a series of incidents involving a woman who allegedly used stolen identities and false identification to withdraw money from banks.
During the investigation, West Fargo police ran a photograph from a fake ID through Clearview AI facial recognition software.
West Fargo shared the information with Fargo investigators, and Lipps alleges Heck relied on the result while pursuing the arrest warrant.
Zibolski said Fargo had identified “a couple of errors” in its investigation and issued new restrictions governing facial recognition searches.
Sep 25, 2026 · via lawcommentary.com
Edge AI migration, as latency, privacy, and bandwidth concerns push inference from cloud to device, requiring dedicated vision processing chips.
Vision processing chips in this segment must offer high reliability, real-time performance, and often support for multiple camera interfaces.
Consumer Electronics (estimated share: 20%) Consumer electronics, including smartphones, tablets, wearables, and smart home devices, constitute a significant end-use sector for Smart Vision Processing Chips.
For full methodological details and benchmark tables, see the latest IndexBox Smart Vision Processing Chips market report.
What this report is about At its core, this report explains how the market for Smart Vision Processing Chips actually functions.
Sep 25, 2026 · via indexbox.io
The system is called Pay with Smile, and the online bank is presenting it as the country's first in-store facial recognition payment system.
Alex Codina, head of merchant payments at Revolut, talks about replacing aging tills with a more efficient payment experience, the usual pitch.
On the customer side, nothing is automatic: you have to turn on the feature in the Revolut app, and the camera then compares your face against the identity checks done when you opened your account.
If the recognition fails, the till simply offers to pay by card, phone, or via the app.
To convince Londoners to show their face at the till, Revolut is tripling RevPoints, its loyalty program, and offering cheaper coffee.
Sep 25, 2026 · via korben.info
A federal advisory panel failed to reach a decision on whether to recommend that the American Bar Association’s accreditation arm lose federal recognition.
Just a month before NACIQI’s meeting, the Education Department issued a staff report recommending ending federal recognition for the accreditation council.
Losing federal recognition would mean the ABA could no longer act as a gatekeeper to federal student aid.
Concerns about the accreditation council’s independence Much of Wednesday’s meeting focused on whether the ABA’s accreditation council was sufficiently independent from its professional organization.
However, the ABA’s accreditation council can move forward with its desired changes anyway.
Sep 25, 2026 · via highereddive.com
If synthetic micro-Doppler spectrograms can push recognition accuracy above 99 percent, the argument for camera-free, privacy-preserving human activity recognition becomes considerably harder to ignore.
Subject of Research: Generative data augmentation with WGAN-GP for radar-based human activity recognition using micro-Doppler spectrograms Article Title: TriPath-WGAN-GP for radar-based human activity recognition via micro-Doppler spectrogram augmentation Article References: Waghumbare, A., Singh, U., & Bazil Raj, A.
AI Learns to Fake Radar Signatures, Pushing Human Activity Recognition Past 99%.
“AI Learns to Fake Radar Signatures, Pushing Human Activity Recognition Past 99%.”
“AI Learns to Fake Radar Signatures, Pushing Human Activity Recognition Past 99%.”
Sep 25, 2026 · via bioengineer.org
Face recognition algorithms are becoming increasingly capable of extracting identity information from poor images.
Image quality and recognition utility are related, but they are not the same thing.
NIST tests whether poor quality predicts recognition failure NIST’s ongoing Face Analysis Technology Evaluation (FATE) Quality Summarization Track tests whether quality assessment algorithms, or QAAs, can predict false non-matches.
DHS finds matchers succeeding on low-quality images The Open Source Face Image Quality tool, or OFIQ, is one of the industry’s major attempts to standardize face quality assessment.
It is determining whether that image contains enough usable identity information for the recognition system that will actually process it.
Sep 24, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
It’s a plankton sampler that we call IFCB for short.
Every twenty minutes it draws up about a teaspoon of water and takes images of the phytoplankton and some microzooplankton.
I worked with a whole team of collaborators at WHOI, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), and the crew of the Oleander to get an IFCB installed there.
There is so much to learn about the plankton dynamics as the ship crosses the Gulf Stream twice a week.
We see what is living on the continental shelf, what's at the edge of the north side of the Gulf Stream, across, and then on the other side.
Sep 24, 2026 · via whoi.edu
Black migrants are disproportionately exposed to the surveillance systems using facial recognition in the first place.
Facial recognition is now used well beyond identity verification at airports and ports of entry.
Racial bias is a design element of facial recognition The racial bias inherent to facial recognition technology’s function starts before it is ever used at a border.
From historic Black Codes to facial recognition Black codes The racialized, uneven consequences of these technologies often go unscrutinized.
While the racialized error rates associated with facial recognition technology are indeed concerning, facial recognition technology still causes real harm when it operates as intended, as it functions within existing systems of power.
Sep 24, 2026 · via techpolicy.press
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Sep 24, 2026 · via thetimes.com
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Sep 24, 2026 · via standard.co.uk
From lab to startup: This professor wins prestigious engineering prize Raymond Fu has been awarded the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for his research on “computer vision and augmented human-machine interaction.”
Since joining the university in 2012, he has spun out more than four technology startups out of Northeastern University’s Synergetic Media Learning Lab, which focuses on big data, artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies.
Yonina Eldar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Joseph E. Aoun chair, was awarded the honor in 2016 while a faculty member at the Israel Institute of Technology.
Making specific mention of Fu’s work on computer vision technologies, Yeh, highlighted his work on advancing computer vision architecture technologies that have “established new benchmarks for AI-based image restoration and enhancements.”
According to Yeh, Fu’s work has been cited over 15,000 times, and he remains among the most influential contributors in computer vision research.
Sep 24, 2026 · via news.northeastern.edu
AI did most of the heavy lifting, condensing a mammoth 108,076 images into 6,362 unique, identifiable images that could be run through its decade-old facial recognition system.
This allowed 126 people to be identified on paper as potential terrorists who would still need to be tracked down by the international police organization.
This approach left 6,362 unique, high-quality images, which were then run through the Interpol Facial Recognition System (IFRS).
This is particularly handy, given that propaganda images often number in the thousands and investigators needed to sift through them manually to identify potential targets, many of which were duplicated by others involved in the same study.
Interpol does not say what agents it used, which models or vendors sit behind them, or where they ran.
Sep 23, 2026 · via techradar.com
It said Manhattan Beer.
Manhattan Beer Distributors, founded in the Bronx in 1978, is one of the biggest beverage distributors in the country, moving more than 45 million cases a year.
Turns out it's a system called AI Merch, a startup Anna Vladymyrska founded in 2023, and it lists Manhattan Beer as its customer.
To be fair, the Manhattan Beer relationship is AI Merch's claim.
This is the future of AI, and it's quietly taking over the consumer space, one shelf at a time.
Sep 23, 2026 · via theglobeandmail.com