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Facial Recognition Could Be Coming To Police Body Cameras (defenseone.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Defense One: Even if the cop who pulls you over doesn't recognize you, the body camera on his chest eventually just might. Device-maker Motorola will work with artificial intelligence software startup Neurala to build "real-time learning for a person of interest search" on products such as the Si500 body camera for police, the firm announced Monday. Italian-born neuroscientist and Neurala founder Massimiliano Versace has created patent-pending image recognition and machine learning technology. It's similar to other machine learning methods but far more scalable, so a device carried by that cop on his shoulder can learn to recognize shapes and -- potentially faces -- as quickly and reliably as a much larger and more powerful computer. It works by mimicking the mammalian brain, rather than the way computers have worked traditionally.
Versace's research was funded, in part, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA under a program called SyNAPSE. In a 2010 paper for IEEE Spectrum, he describes the breakthrough. Basically, a tiny constellation of processors do the work of different parts of the brain -- which is sometimes called neuromorphic computation -- or "computation that can be divided up between hardware that processes like the body of a neuron and hardware that processes the way dendrites and axons do." Versace's research shows that AIs can learn in that environment using a lot less code.
Versace's research was funded, in part, by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA under a program called SyNAPSE. In a 2010 paper for IEEE Spectrum, he describes the breakthrough. Basically, a tiny constellation of processors do the work of different parts of the brain -- which is sometimes called neuromorphic computation -- or "computation that can be divided up between hardware that processes like the body of a neuron and hardware that processes the way dendrites and axons do." Versace's research shows that AIs can learn in that environment using a lot less code.
The "birthday paradox" causes facial recognition to report matches far far more often that you expect. Assume you have 1000 crooks pictures. Instead of 1 change in100 of an error and 1 comparison when you scan a person, it's 1 chance of an error in 100 on _1000_ comparisons. That makes one out of every 10 people you scan show up as a crook, whether they are or not.
The german federal security service and my emplyer tried this a long time ago, but no matter how good the recognition got, there were thousands of crooks and hundereds of thousands of people to try to match. They reputedly gave up when they identified someone's grandma as a member of the Bader-Meinhof gang (;-))
davecb@spamcop.net
They can't stop the offering of a bounty for those capturing police wrongdoing on video.
Use their "do you have something to hide?" right back at them.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.