Hitachi Surveillance System Can Recognize a Face From 36 Million Others in One Second
March 24th, 2012Via: Mashable:
Face-recognition technology is rapidly evolving as evidenced by this new surveillance camera system. It can not only recognize specific faces, but is able to compare a single face to 36 million others in just one second.
The system, made by Hitachi Kokusai Electric and reported by DigInfo TV, was shown at a security trade show recently. It’s able to achieve its blazing speed by not wasting time on image processing — it takes visual data directly from the camera to compare the face in real time. The software also groups faces with similar features, so it’s able to narrow down the field very quickly.
When the system finds candidates that could be a match to the person being scanned, it immediately displays their thumbnails. The user can then review the archived footage and see if the person is, say, a repeat customer if it’s being used in a business. And the usefulness to law enforcement is pretty obvious.
Research Credit: DW
Yes Local Feature Analysis (LFA) vs the hinted at speed of nodal point databases and say the known US populations size – public and private facial recognition was always been very, very, very fast. The strange thing is this has been very fast for 10-15 years ago but few commented on it. I guess the hardware is now end user cheap vs state cheap and people are talking about real numbers 🙂
Say hello to the world of Minority Report.