The Dark Database: Facial recognition and its "failure" to enroll

Delgado, Dennis
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Title:The Dark Database: Facial recognition and its "failure" to enroll
Author(s):Delgado, Dennis
Subject(s):surveillance
Blackness
racial bias
race
photography
AI
facial recognition
Abstract:This essay discusses the Dark Database project, which looks at the presence of blackness in facial recognition systems. It recognizes the system’s privileging of Caucasian skin as the central definition of skin tone. The essay considers these flaws within the context of photography’s history of shaping how people of color are imagined and represented in visual culture. Moving through the structure of a facial recognition system, the essay describes utilizing that system to create a set of composite portraits that record what a system can “see,” and furthermore, what that process can tell us about the overall culture that produced it.
Issue Date:2021-10-26
Series/Report:Media-N, vol. 17, issue 2
Genre:Article
Type:Text
Language:English
URI:http://hdl.handle.net/2142/113426
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v17i2.766
Date Available in IDEALS:2022-02-03


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