Face recognition technology is just one example of "biometrics, " the process of identifying people through physical characteristics.
Of course, face recognition technology will have to surmount many regulatory and security hurdles before it becomes mainstream.
In the banking context, face recognition technology could be just what branches need to raise their level of service.
Face recognition technology is proving to be a handier, more sophisticated tool to pick us out on the street, a crowded room or at passport control.
For People View, once a person's likeness has been registered with the software, Image Assorting Technology and Face Recognition technology is utilized to automatically upload a specific person's image to their respective folder for easy access.
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What is to prevent a corporation from targeting a particular individual, using face recognition technology to assemble all uploaded videos in which he appears, and effectively constructing a surveillance record that can be used to analyze his life?
New York, for example, said last year, that the use of face recognition technology at the DMV had helped it prosecute more than 1, 000 cases of fraud where someone tried to get licenses for multiple identities.
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Since then, face-recognition technology has improved, and has been augmented to recognize irises, which are unique to individuals.
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But I am looking for a more intuitive device that will use face-recognition technology to track my ever move with the camera.
Japan's NEC, for instance, sells face-recognition technology to allow advertisers to tailor what ad is showing on a digitised screen depending on the viewer's sex and age.
Apart from its use in airports, there are other valid uses of face-recognition technology that you do not address, such as the sifting of application data for passports or visas.
If and when face-recognition technology improves to the point where surreptitious cameras can routinely recognise individuals, privacy, as it has existed in the public sphere, will in effect be wiped out.
He raised concerns about a recent spread of numberplate recognition technology and face recognition CCTV cameras without proper scrutiny by parliament.
The document goes on to describe an alternative method using face or eye recognition technology that can be used not just for security purposes, but for possible e-commerce solutions like completing an online transaction.
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Facebook has acquired facial recognition technology company Face.com, according to a Face.com blog post.
The company, which is actually a visual recognition company not an app company, has developed sophisticated facial recognition technology that analyzes features of the face and recognizes faces to a high level of accuracy.
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One advantage of the new technology is that it is less invasive than face recognition software.
Face.com has a nice head start as interest in facial recognition technology heats up.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard says it is putting facial recognition technology into use, according to the AP, using a face-recognizing tool that was being developed in preparation for hosting the Olympics in 2012.
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