Posted on 08/28/2010 2:44:47 PM PDT by Clive
TORONTO - Toronto police are using hi-tech facial recognition software to comb through tens of thousands of images in the hunt for the ringleaders of the G20 riots, the lead investigator says.
The DVD images come from closed-circuit cameras installed throughout the downtown area, 12 metres above street-level, Det.-Sgt. Gary Giroux says.
Some of the 28,000 images from private and police cameras plus 500 to 600 videos have been given to a Canadian Bankers Association facial recognition specialist, Giroux said. "The analyst does have the materials."
The team concentrated for weeks on identifying the most-easily-recognized suspects from the best photos, he said in an interview.
"We're moving into an area we expect to be more of a challenge ... the core crowd responsible for the large dollar value damage."
Civilians turned in about 80% of the images police have, after public appeals for help in identifying thugs who burned four cruisers and smashed store windows, the detective said.
He had "no knowledge" of cops posing as journalists and denied police used pictures seized from arrested suspects, saying "that's not the case."
After having charges of obstructing a peace officer and unlawful assembly dropped, National Post staff photographer Brett Gundlock said one camera's memory card was not returned.
"I was just photographing the demonstrations," he told QMI Agency.
"Police gave me my camera back but not my memory card ... my buddy grabbed my other camera, so I had those photos," he said.
Police photographers who took about 5,600 pictures, wore "casual clothes, in an undercover capacity, Giroux said.
"Some were attacked" by Black Bloc hooligans, either verbally or with sticks aimed at cameras to prevent photos being taken, he said.
Similar threats convinced some civilians to submit their images, Giroux said, adding "we're still asking for them."
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Tried to follow the link and read the whole article:That is wierd. I have never seen that before on a Sun Media article.The requested document could not be found.
It looks like Sun Media lost the link so we are stuck with the abridged portion that I posted.
I searched canoe.ca, which is the Sun Media web site, for search term "facial recognition" and the headline came up just as it appears in my posting but when I clicked on it I got the same error message that you got, so the broken link is definitely within canoe.ca.
Great! Maybe we can use it in the states to hunt down those pesky right-wing extremists. Hey, that’s what our brand-spanking-new ‘Fusion Centers’ are for.
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