Bar des sciences Live "Facial recognition, from human to digital! Psychology and artificial intelligence"

Online on the UM YouTube channel.

Initial contact with the visual world begins at birth. Face perception improves during the first few weeks of life, and by the age of two months, a baby is able to recognize the faces around him, with a preference for his mother's face. Human beings are soon able to recognize familiar people automatically, even in crowds, thanks to brain mechanisms.

In the 60s, American researchers were studying how to program computers to recognize faces. In the early 2000s, the pace accelerated with the development of deep learning and Big Data. Today, facial recognition technologies, based on the exponential development of artificial intelligence technologies, are becoming increasingly widespread. Facial recognition is becoming an integral part of our daily lives, particularly for securing access to certain areas and for a wide range of applications in video surveillance, biometrics, robotics, home automation, image retrieval, etc.

In an increasingly digital society, the emergence of facial recognition technologies is not neutral. While they may fascinate with their science-fiction-like performance and futuristic character, they in themselves represent a real legal, ethical and social challenge. Framed by the General Data Protection Regulation, these more or less sensitive uses raise a number of questions.

Four multidisciplinary experts will be on hand to answer questions from the live audience.

• Gina Devau, neurobiologist, researcher at the Molecular Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases (MMDN) laboratory, neuroscience lecturer at the Faculty of Science - University of Montpellier.
• Adel Jomni, lecturer at the Centre de Research et d'Etudes sur la Sécurité de l'Information et la Cybercriminalité (CRESIC) at the University of Montpellier. Responsible for the university diploma Cybercrime: law, information security and digital forensics.
• Abderrahmane Kheddar, PhD in robotics, researcher at the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM).
• William Puech, researcher at the Montpellier Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics Laboratory (LIRMM), head of the Image and Interaction Department (ICAR), University Professor at the University of Montpellier.
  

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