NEC’s newest facial recognition tech is ready to track changes of substantial age and weight to compare faces to their younger, slimmer selves. a contemporary Homeland Security test within a 1.6 million person criminal database saw 92% accuracy.
NEC’s error percentage was only 0.3%, compared to a higher best system within the report, which came in with 2.5%. If that doesn’t sound impressive, consider that NEC was in a position to pair one of its employees-pictured above-with an image of himself 23 years ago. The software, geared towards security and immigration control, works by specializing in certain features (similar to eyes and mouth) while ignoring others, corresponding to the eyebrows. [ CrunchGear ]
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