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Facial recognition tech designed to identify African faces wins engineering award – Source CNET Tech

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Charlette N’Guessan is originally from Cote D’Ivoire and now works out of Ghana.


Royal Academy of Engineering

Facial recognition has a reputation problem. What could be an exciting new technology with the potential to make our lives easier, safer and more secure has been blighted by reports that it repeatedly fails when asked to correctly identify the faces of Black people.

But pioneering software engineer Charlette N’Guessan from Ghana has presented a different vision of what facial recognition technology is capable of, with her own product that’s specifically designed to identify African faces.

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