Can Algorithms Recognized a Masked Face?

Now having worn a mask at times now in public.  I would guess, not well at all.  The makers of such recognition systems seem to scrambling.    In the recent past we might have thought it is a suspicious thing to do at at all.   I remember the first time I put one on, thinking, do I look like a robber? But now as the near normal?

How Well Can Algorithms Recognize Your Masked Face? in Wired.

Makers of facial-recognition technology scramble to adapt to a world where people routinely cover their faces to avoid spreading disease. 

  Facial Recognition Algorithms from Los Angeles startup TrueFace are good enough that the US Air Force uses them to speed security checks at base entrances. But CEO Shaun Moore says he’s facing a new question: How good is TrueFace’s technology when people are wearing face masks?

“It’s something we don’t know yet because it’s not been deployed in that environment,” Moore says. His engineers are testing their technology on masked faces and are hurriedly gathering images of masked faces to tune their machine-learning algorithms for pandemic times.  ... "