Police tapping iPhone for facial recognition
[quote]Some law-enforcement agencies are preparing to deploy a mobile facial-recognition tool, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
According to the Journal, about 40 law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. wíll be making the handheld product available to their offícers in the field as early as September. The device, which has been developed by Massachusetts-based BI2 Technologies, allows offícers to take a photo of a person from a distance of five feet or less. That photo is then compared with a database of images of people with criminal records to see if there is a match. The device is also capable of scanning a person's iris.
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[quote]Some law-enforcement agencies are preparing to deploy a mobile facial-recognition tool, The Wall Street Journal reported today.
According to the Journal, about 40 law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. wíll be making the handheld product available to their offícers in the field as early as September. The device, which has been developed by Massachusetts-based BI2 Technologies, allows offícers to take a photo of a person from a distance of five feet or less. That photo is then compared with a database of images of people with criminal records to see if there is a match. The device is also capable of scanning a person's iris.
Read more @ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20079 ... cognition/
