Facial Recognition That Detects Your Younger Self
With the flood of facial recognition news lately, there seems to be an intense race to the finish line, if you will. Companies from all over the world are rolling out software, devices, and apps, competing to be the next thing in biometric identification and security. In a short post from Crunchgear.com the results of a test that compared the accuracy of multiple international facial recognition companies.
They report that United States Department of Homeland Security conducted the accuracy test that included a number of face recognition companies. NEC finished the best with a 0.3 percentage of error in a criminal test, returning a 92 percent accuracy rate from a 1.6 million person database of criminal faces. In a 1.8 million person database of visa applicants, NEC’s software returned with 95 percent accuracy in facial recognition.
The 0.3 percentage of error in the criminal test was superior to German tech company, Cognitec Systems, which returned an error rate of 2.5 percent.
Ranked first overall in the study, NEC says they focus on an individual’s eyes, mouth, or nose, and for the most part ignore other specific features like eyebrows. Japan’s leading business daily newspaper, The Nikkei, also tested NEC’s software recently, attempting to recognize the face of an NEC researcher among two photos, one taken in 1987 and another in 2010. It could, and now NEC expects its technology to be used frequently in crime investigation and/or immigration control.
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