Facial Recognition
Facial recognition is technology that identifies or verifies a person by comparing the features of their face in an image with stored facial data.
What is Facial Recognition?
Verification (one-to-one, such as unlocking a phone) differs from identification (one-to-many, such as searching a watch list). Facial data is biometric special-category data under the GDPR, and the EU AI Act bans untargeted scraping of facial images and restricts real-time remote identification by police.
How it works
A model converts a face into a numeric template and measures its similarity to stored templates.
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