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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Drones With Facial Recognition Technology Will End Anonymity, Everywhere
http://www.businessinsider.com/facial-recognition-technology-and-drones-2013-5PITTSBURGH (AP) The Tsarnaev brothers, like anyone in a crowd of strangers, might have expected to be anonymous.
But when the FBI released blurry, off-angle images of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, researchers with Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center began trying to bring them into focus.
In a real-time experiment, the scientists digitally mapped the face of "Suspect 2," turned it toward the camera and enhanced it so it could be matched against a database. The researchers did not know how well they had done until authorities identified the suspect as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger, surviving brother and a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
"I was like, 'Holy shish kabobs!' " Marios Savvides, director of the CMU Cylab, told the Tribune-Review. "It's not exactly him, but it's also not a random face. It does fit him."
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How Drones With Facial Recognition Technology Will End Anonymity, Everywhere (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2013
OP
We've got by a long time without facial recognition drones. It's a wrong priority.
limpyhobbler
May 2013
#3
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)1. K&R
siligut
(12,272 posts)2. Don't even need drones, just public cameras
https://www.aclunc.org/docs/criminal_justice/police_practices/under_the_watchful_eye_the_proliferation_of_video_surveillance_systems_in_california.pdf
In fact, the los angeles Police department was field-testing face recognition software in november 2006. By combining video footage with face recognition software, the government could quickly identify individuals walking down a street, participating in a political rally, or entering a doctors office.
In fact, the los angeles Police department was field-testing face recognition software in november 2006. By combining video footage with face recognition software, the government could quickly identify individuals walking down a street, participating in a political rally, or entering a doctors office.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)3. We've got by a long time without facial recognition drones. It's a wrong priority.
Industry never stops to ask "Should we develop this new technology?"
It's as if everything possible must be done.
And the government is mixed up for making this a priority for industry to work on while other urgent projects go underfunded.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)4. As someone who lives in western PA, I want to go on record about this:
"Holy shish kabobs" is not part of our vernacular. Mr Savvides was speaking extemporaneously.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)5. She's going to be easy to identify with all of that green stuff on her face.