Contrary to popular belief, most property crimes—including burglaries and package theft—happen during the day, not under cover of darkness. But night still brings unique challenges: fewer people ...

Silicon-based CMOS camera sensors are cheap and plentiful, but they’re rarely used to their full potential: they can detect a ...

Driver monitoring systems in cars have used cameras to detect distracted driving since at least 2006.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Infrared cameras helped avoid nearly 20 million minutes of power outages last year, according to Consumers Energy. The utility company said the cameras are used to detect outages ...

Scientists have developed a lens-free mid-infrared camera using a modern twist on pinhole imaging. The system uses nonlinear crystals to convert infrared light into visible, allowing standard sensors ...

The question for American drivers isn’t whether in-car cameras are coming, but if they’ll arrive as a safety system, or as a ...

Modern Windows PCs often include some kind of biometric hardware, mainly in the form of facial recognition (using infrared cameras) or fingerprint scanning. Both of these features let you use Windows ...