Social media images help fill 'major gaps' in global biodiversity data

A new study published in Conservation Biology shows that geotagged social media photos can significantly improve biodiversity datasets, especially in regions underrepresented in global monitoring ...
IEEE

Eye side and orientation detection of iris images using lightweight textural descriptors for embedded systems

Abstract: Iris recognition is a widely used biometric authentication technique due to its high accuracy and uniqueness. However, these systems are vulnerable to spoofing attacks, which can occur by ...
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Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry as Population Descriptors in Genomics Research

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review and assess existing methodologies, benefits, and challenges in the use of ...
Associated Press

Trump’s use of AI images pushes new boundaries, further eroding public trust, experts say

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Nekima Levy Armstrong holds up her fist after ...
IEEE

LGRI: A Multimodal Image Registration Method Integrating Adaptive Log-Gabor Filtering with Rotation-Invariant Descriptors

Abstract: Multimodal image registration aims to accurately align images with differences in spatial structure or optical characteristics, serving as a key technology in remote sensing image processing ...