[Air-L] facial recognition software
Markus Lang
M.H.Lang at web.de
Fri Jul 16 00:52:20 PDT 2010
Last year I saw a presentation of modern facial recognition software and
was shocked how well it already works (especially for consumer
research). If you have an input device like an USB-camera, a Video
capture card or a TV-capture card, you can try it yourself (live demo):
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/bv/kognitiv/biom/dd.jsp
Best Regards,
Markus Lang
Barry Wellman schrieb:
> In very early July, the G20 met in Toronto. (Never let this circus
> come to your town.)
>
> As such, there was the inevitable demonstrations -- mostly peaceful
> but some violent -- and the inevitable police overreaction. I've heard
> credible reports of untended broken arm, etc.
>
> The usual investigations are taking place.
>
> The police are now talking about using facial recognition software to
> identify vandals. (Seems they grabbed 1K of the wrong people at the
> time.)
>
> One of the most solid areas of research by my mentor Charles Tilly
> [RIP] is that historically the police harm more people than vice-versa.
>
> I've just written to one of the investigating units that they use
> facial recognition software to identify the police who may have
> attacked civilians without provocation. After all, the police already
> have photos of their own officers on file.
>
>
> Barry Wellman
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