According to the United Nations, on November 15, 2022, the world population reached 8 billion people. Eight billion faces, of which each one of us can remember about 5,000, on average. And we ...

In a fascinating exploration of the human eye's reflective properties, researchers at the University of Maryland have achieved a remarkable feat: creating a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a ...

Mirrors to the soul: In just a few years, contemporary generative AI systems have come a long way in creating realistic-looking humans. Eyes and hands are its most significant stumbling blocks. Still, ...

The big picture: The Internet has long demonstrated the potential hazard involving unintentional reflections in photos. In 2015, researchers at MIT developed an algorithm to remove distracting (and ...

Clues to deepfakes may be in the eyes. Researchers at the University of Hull in England reported July 15 that eye reflections offer a potential way to suss out AI-generated images of people. The ...

The researchers came up with one real-world scenario to try this gear out in: they zoomed in on eye reflections from video clips by Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga, hoping to take advantage of quality close ...

A widely popular idea in psychology and evolutionary science suggests that the distinctive look of the human eye—particularly the white area surrounding the iris—evolved to help us communicate ...