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Jewish World Review
August 23, 2013/ 17 Elul, 5773
The better to see you with, Mr. Bad guy
By
Dave Ross
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Cameras are everywhere now. The question is, when it comes to identifying bad guys for purposes of preventing terrorism, who's going to watch all that video?
Ideally, machines would watch it --- machines able to recognize faces using something called "biometric optical surveillance system technology."
Geoff Harvey is a spokesman at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Kennewick, Washington, which tested the technology at a local arena parking lot, outdoors.
According to Harvey, they hired volunteers to participate in and they didn't use any public individuals.
These 30 hired volunteers milled around in the parking lot as two "robotic cameras" with infrared and distance sensors took video from various angles, in sunlight and shade, while a computer attempted to match the videos in real-time to mug shots stored in a database.
But as Harvey told KONA radio, the lab discovered, "We took the photos outdoors in a variety of different ways and we found there is a lot of work that needs to be done before we deploy this kind of technology for facial recognition."
It didn't work. At least not the way it was supposed to.
Face recognition programs can quickly organize your photo collection, but picking out faces from a real-time video is not so easy.
So, if you're one of those worried about the ever-expanding scope of government surveillance, there's one less thing to worry about for now.
And even if they do make it work, there are always Groucho glasses.
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Comment by clicking here. Dave Ross hosts the Morning News on Seattle's KIRO Radio weekdays from 5-9 a.m. He spends his down time tinkering with electronic projects, writing novelty songs, shopping at thrift stores, and playing squash. As an avid hiker, he's earned the title Energizer Bunny from his friends; while they all stop to see stuff along the trail, Dave keeps going and going and going. He enjoys traveling internationally for work and pleasure with memorable stops in Baghdad, Qatar, Israel, Prague, Germany (to cover the Berlin Wall), China, Soviet Union, Niger, Senegal, and Iran.
You can listen to his daily column in audio format by clicking here.
Previously:
• 08/22/13 The latest outburst of anarchy
• 08/21/13 Send al Qeda to crime ridden cities?
• 08/20/13 How honeybees are keeping men out of prison
• 08/19/13 Truth about Area 51 finally revealed
• 08/16/13 If you knew how much it cost to raise a child
• 08/15/13 The voice in the nursery
• 08/14/13 When license plates speak
• 08/13/13 The plant that wouldn't die
• 08/12/13 Class warfare at 35,000 feet is just fine
• 08/09/13 Want a good night's sleep? Become homeless
• 08/08/13 When eating too healthy becomes a problem
• 08/07/13 The Die Phone
• 08/06/13 Can't afford a doctor or medicine? There's always the Placebo App
• 08/05/13 Car prowlers taught lesson with call to mom
© 2013, Dave Ross
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