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With target customers such as the U.S Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Military, and Law Enforcement Agencies, ForensicaGPS has been tested in several real-world scenarios and has been successful in quickly, efficiently and accurately compare, analyze and ultimately verify digital facial images from grainy surveillance photos or videos where a suspects face is often shielded or distorted.
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - Most of us are a little indecisive when it comes to ordering at a restaurant or trying a new product, so some businesses hope to make the decision for you. More and more are turning to facial recognition software, and a Grand Rapids tech company is one of the first in the world to install biometric scanning in the use of real time marketing triggers. Nexus Digital Signage recently started advertising on LCD screens in businesses across the area, and just last week, owner Scott Sandburg and tech consultant Jordan Verburg installed their facial recognition software inside the store of their first client, Curtis Cleaners. The second a customer walks through their doors, the mini camera on top of the store's TV spots him or her. Customers can't see it. What the camera immediately looks for is eyes, ears, and a nose. Next, it looks for textures. "It can tell a man from a woman by dark hair on the face, like a goatee," said Verburg. Verburg says women stand out because females tend to have higher cheekbones and smoother skin than males. After a week using the software, Andy Curtis says says it's revealed some interesting facts about the demographics of his customers. "There was a big jump in clientele from 4 to 6 in the evenings and it's 75 percent male, so that's interesting," said Andy Curtis. Verberug can pull up all sorts of stats -- sex, age, buying preference, etc.
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Facebook Facial Recognition: A New Take on it Via the Klik App By Ed Oswald, May 10, 2012
Just when you thought you were safe from Facebooks facial recognition software, theres a new app in town using the social networking site to tag photos automatically. Its called Klik, and is every bit as creepy as the facial recognition software that Facebook tried to use. Available for the iPad and iPhone, Klik connects to your Facebook profile and scans the pictures of your tagged friends. Klik will then auto-detect the faces using that tagging information, and does so in real time when taking pictures from the app or from pictures in your photo library on your iDevices. To use Klik, you need a Facebook account, and iOS 4.3 or above.
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North Dakota using facial-recognition software when taking drivers license photos
By Sam Benshoof, May 6, 2012 FARGO Before Randy Wilson stepped in front of the camera at the DMV last Thursday, he was told to remove his glasses for his drivers license photo. Wilson, from Fargo, didnt think much of it. He figured it was probably because the cameras flash might cause a glare in the photo. As it turns out, though, its a little bit more complicated than that.
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Face off
By Lezette Engelbrecht, May 4, 2012 Always struggling to put a face to a name? Soon, facial recognition technology (FRT) may be able to do the job for you. Except, advanced recognition systems won't only match faces to names, but to their identity numbers, personal details, purchasing behavior and banking information, too. All without the face in question being aware of it. Much attention was focused on the potential of FRTs last year, following a report released by Carnegie Mellon University, which suggested facial recognition, paired with social media profiles, could spell the death of privacy. In future, goes the theory, anyone with a smartphone and an Internet connection would
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IRONTON -- Lawrence County officials are hoping facial recognition can help solve a more than 30year-old murder mystery that some people call "the belle in the well." Lawrence County Sheriff Jeff Lawless said County Coroner Kurt Hofmann sent off the skull of a woman found in 1981 in a well along Greasy Ridge about eight months ago for facial recognition. The facial reconstruction should be available Thursday afternoon, Lawless said Monday.
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Face recognition software at businesses raising privacy, safety concerns By Michelle Tuzee, April 16, 2012
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's Friday night, you walk into a new bar. They check your I.D., but that's not all they may be checking. A growing number of businesses are setting up cameras linked to facial recognition software. It's not just bars. Some malls are also testing the technology. "It's helpful to businesses who want to know who their customers are," said Rafe Needleman, CNET.com's editor-at-large. "They will recognize your age or your gender, so if you walk up to a display wall at a retail establishment or mall & and if you're a mid-40s White guy, maybe they'll give you an ad for a BMW. If you're a woman, 20s, maybe you'll get an ad for something else." Experts think it's only a matter of time before stores start using technology that not only recognizes you, but tracks your spending habits, too.
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Face recognition could catch bad avatars By Jacob Aron, April 11, 2012
A POLICE car rolls up to a house where the doors and windows are smashed in, rooms are ransacked and numerous high-value items are missing. Calming the home-owner, an officer begins to investigate:
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April 2, 2012
New Surveillance System Identifies Your Face By Searching Through 36 Million Images Per Second By David Hill
Privacy advocates, brace yourselves the search capabilities of the latest surveillance technology is nightmare fuel. Hitachi Kokusai Electric recently demonstrated the development of a surveillance camera system capable of searching through 36 million images per second to match a persons face taken from a mobile phone or captured by surveillance. While the minimum resolution required for a match is 40 x 40 pixels, the facial recognition software allows a variance in the position of the persons head, such that someone can be turned away from the camera horizontally or vertically by 30 degrees and it can still make a match. Furthermore, the software identifies faces in surveillance video as it is recorded, meaning that users can immediately watch before and after recorded footage from the time point. This means that the biggest barrier in video surveillance, which is watching hours of video to find what you want, is gone. The power of the search capabilities is in the algorithms that group similar faces together. When a search is conducted, results are immediately shown as thumbnails, and selecting a thumbnail pulls up the stored footage for review. Because the search results are displayed as a grid, mistaken identifications can be ruled out quickly or verified by pulling up the entire video for more information. The scenarios that this system could be useful for are endless. The police, for instance, could find individuals from old surveillance video or pick them out of large crowds, whether they are suspects or people whove been kidnapped. Or if a retail customer is caught stealing something on camera, the system could pull up footage from each time the customer has been in the store to identify other thefts that went unnoticed. The company, which specializes in video cameras for the imaging, medical, and security markets, states that the system is ideally suited for large-scale customers, such as law enforcement agencies, transportation centers, and retail centers. The system will be released in the next fiscal year presumably customized to specific customers needs. Interested parties have to contact the company directly, which is probably wise in order to control whose hands it ends up in. And this means
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Fake ID holders beware: facial recognition service Face.com can now detect your age By Sarah
Mitroff, March 29, 2012
Facial-recognition platform Face.com could foil the plans of all those under-age kids looking to score some booze. Fake IDs might not fool anyone for much longer, because Face.com claims its new application programming interface (API) can be used to detect a persons age by scanning a photo. With its facial recognition system, Face.com has built two Facebook apps that can scan photos and tag them for you. The company also offers an API for developers to use its facial recognition technology in the apps they build. Its latest update to the API can scan a photo and supposedly determine a persons minimum age, maximum age, and estimated age. It might not be spot-on accurate, but it could get close enough to determine your age group. Instead of trying to define what makes a person young or old, we provide our algorithms with a ton of data and the system can reverse engineer what makes someone young or old, Face.com chief executive Gil Hirsch told VentureBeat in an interview. We use the general structure of a face to determine age. As humans, our features are either heightened or soften depending on the age. Kids have round, soft faces and as we age, we have elongated faces. The algorithms also take wrinkles, facial smoothness, and other telling age signs into account to place each scanned face into a general age group. The accuracy, Hirsch told me, is determined by how old a person looks, not necessarily how old they actually are. The API also provides a confidence level on
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You consent to a search if a camera sees you? Facial Recognition vs. 4th Amendment March 22, 2012
If you go outside or into a building where there are security cameras and potential surveillance via facial recognition technology, have you automatically waived your Fourth Amendment rights and consented to a search? The government may use that reasoning to strike a 'balance' between privacy and security in regard to facial recognition tracking. When you go outside or go to other public places such as a bank or a mall, have you automatically given up your Fourth Amendment rights and consented to a search? When it comes to tracking you via facial recognition technology, what if the government or other law enforcement were to use that argument, that by simply being in a place where there are security cameras, you waived your Fourth Amendment rights and consented to a search? The FBI and DOD sponsored a legal series about the U.S. government using facial recognition; the latest forum was titled "Striking the Balance - A Government Approach to Facial Recognition Privacy and Civil Liberties." Whenever the word 'balance' is used, privacy and civil liberties are usually about to be kicked in the name of 'security.' When it comes to surveillance via facial recognition technology, federal law enforcement, intelligence personnel and national security agencies are looking into the "gaps in legal/policy authority that may result in privacy and civil liberties vulnerabilities if left unaddressed." The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Senior Fellow Peter Swire, also a law professor at Ohio State University, spoke about "Facial Recognition by the Government: Privacy and Civil Liberties Issues." Since using "one's facial image, with or without knowledge or consent," can identify and be used to track a person "an inherent tension exists between privacy and facial recognition." The forum was to "examine where the appropriate balance lies between crime and terrorism prevention using facial recognition and robust privacy safeguards." Swire started with two different perspectives about facial recognition, according to FPF.
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