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Biometric Face Recognition At Your Local Mall

Posted by samzenpus on from the sunglass-and-disguise-hut dept.

dippityfisch writes "The Sydney Morning Herald reports that face recognition is being considered at Westfield's Sydney mall to catch offenders. The identification system matches images captured by surveillance cameras to an existing database of faces. Police said they could not comment on the center's intentions, but would welcome any move to improve security and technology in the area."

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  1. Video Surveillance is Useless by S3D · · Score: 4, Informative

    Video Surveillance is Useless Presentation from prominent computer vision researcher, inventor of phase correlation method It basically saying, that on current tech level video surveillance is useless for face identification. What follow is that it's actually harmful, due to wrong impression of it's reliability.