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Face Recognition(also: Facial Recognition, Face Detection)

A technology that uses computer vision and machine learning to identify or verify a person by analysing their facial features from images or video. In accessibility contexts, face recognition has significant potential as an assistive tool for blind and deafblind people, enabling…

Face Swap(also: Face Transformation, Face Replacement)

A technology that replaces the face of a person in a video or image with a different face while attempting to preserve the original person's facial expressions, head movements, and lip synchronization. In the context of accessibility, face swap technology has potential…

Facial Recognition(also: Face Recognition, FR)

Facial recognition is a computer vision technology that identifies or verifies a person by analyzing and comparing patterns in their facial features from digital images or video. In accessibility contexts, facial recognition has significant potential to assist blind and low…

Federated Learning(also: FL)

A machine-learning approach in which a shared model is trained across many user devices without the raw training data ever leaving those devices: each device computes updates locally and sends only model parameters or gradients to a central server for aggregation. Federated…

Focus Mode

A privacy technique in visual assistance technologies that spotlights a specific object of interest while obfuscating or hiding all other elements in the image or video. For example, a user might activate focus mode to view only a microwaveable meal while everything else in the…

Forced Intimacy

Forced Intimacy is a concept coined by disability and transformative justice activist Mia Mingus that describes the experience of disabled people being expected to share very personal information with non-disabled people simply to access basic services, navigate public spaces,…

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