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Airport Face-Off Viisage and Visionics Battle it Out
Airport Face-Off The Palm Beach Post has a feature discussing face recognition: Face-Off: What's Best Way to Spot Airport Terrorists? Essentially, two companies focusing on face recognition (Viisage and Visionics) have systems placed in Boston's Airport, for evaluation purposes. If the technology proves successful, it will be licensed -- costing about $30k per camera. Until then, it works out for both parties: the companies share values increase due to media focus, and the airport gets a free way of reassuring scared passengers. The article spends a lengthy section discussing the success of such cameras. Indeed, they only seem to work when the people cooperate -- a behaviour which you can't expect from terrorists ;) In these cases, they ask people to stop for a short moment. This worked at the Superbowl, since people had to wait at turnstyles. Biometric researchers are still not convinced on applicability! However, it's good business, especially in this unsecure climate; so you can understand the pressure to get these cameras on the market... | Alex J. Champandard 934 posts. Thursday 21 February, 17:48 Reply