Facial Recognition software has never caught a criminal..........I agree. But, the officer looking at the results of the image search and resulting possible matches has.
I worked on a "Project Bluebear" for two years where three linked Ontario Police Services and a courthouse simultaneously and securely searched and shared biometric and text records data. I retired in July/04 after 32 years in law enforcement and 25 in Forensics where I saw the identifications/verifications that resulted from an image located in another Police database and most recently from an image from an Identity Card. Police use biometrics (fingerprints, facial recognition, iris etc) as investigative aids. They are not 100% perfect yet and are only used to assist in investigtions. Example: An image from a surveillance tape is searched, if the suspect image is located in the number one position or number 200 position, does it matter as long as through further investigation you identify and apprehend him/her. Also, if a fingerprint is searched through the Automated Fingerprint Identication System and there is a match, the AFIS system cannot make the identification, it must be made by a qualified identifiation officer/technician. My point is these technologies should be used for what they are intended, investigative assisted aids to law enforcement. On the other hand, it has helped us, "Bluebear Network International" www.bbninternational.com to produce Integrated Digital Law Enforcement (IDLE),the world's first system that uses biomerics and textual records to securely and simultaneously search, and share information among linked police biometric repositories and records systems,as well as integrated justice legacy databases. Law Enforcement need all the help they can get and this technology is improving and will help tremendously in the very near future.
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Facial Recognition software has never caught a criminal..........I agree. But, the officer looking at the results of the image search and resulting possible matches has. I worked on a "Project Bluebear" for two years where three linked Ontario Police Services and a courthouse simultaneously and securely searched and shared biometric and text records data. I retired in July/04 after 32 years in law enforcement and 25 in Forensics where I saw the identifications/verifications that resulted from an image located in another Police database and most recently from an image from an Identity Card. Police use biometrics (fingerprints, facial recognition, iris etc) as investigative aids. They are not 100% perfect yet and are only used to assist in investigtions. Example: An image from a surveillance tape is searched, if the suspect image is located in the number one position or number 200 position, does it matter as long as through further investigation you identify and apprehend him/her. Also, if a fingerprint is searched through the Automated Fingerprint Identication System and there is a match, the AFIS system cannot make the identification, it must be made by a qualified identifiation officer/technician. My point is these technologies should be used for what they are intended, investigative assisted aids to law enforcement. On the other hand, it has helped us, "Bluebear Network International" www.bbninternational.com to produce Integrated Digital Law Enforcement (IDLE),the world's first system that uses biomerics and textual records to securely and simultaneously search, and share information among linked police biometric repositories and records systems,as well as integrated justice legacy databases. Law Enforcement need all the help they can get and this technology is improving and will help tremendously in the very near future.