Posted on 04/11/2015 11:23:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Like similar biometric technologies — fingerprint or facial recognition systems — the Carnegie Mellon project uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques. The technology captures images from a live photographic or video feed and runs them through a database to find a potential match.
Like fingerprints, every iris is unique — thanks to enormously complex patterns that remain the same throughout a person’s lifetime. High-resolution cameras can capture images of the iris from a distance using light in the near-infrared wavelength band.
In the realm of law enforcement, iris recognition could be used to identify suspects at long range in various lighting conditions. The system can even be used to capture images through reflections in a mirror.
The CMU team recently posted a video successfully testing the system in a typical traffic stop scenario. Using the long-range iris scanner, the system was able to identify the driver of a vehicle by capturing an image of the eye via the side-view mirror. You can see the results below.
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what///could possibly/....go wrong///
Wow! I think it was Minority Repor lt that predicted this.
Guess you will need to get a near IR filter on your glasses or contacts.
All the technological pieces for the ultimate totalitarianism are falling into place. All that’s needed is someone with the will to turn the key and swicth it on. O, what a brave new world!
Can they identify an iris as seen through a rifle scope, from the objective end?
1. amazing
2. could be very helpful for certain LIMITED security-senstive applications
2. almost certainly will be mis-used against us all (like most other new things ... license plate readers, drone spy cameras to follow us around, secret tracking of our movements via our cellphones, govt spying on your phone calls, govt spying on the internet, illegal spying of you down to two centimeters resolution from spy satellites overhead, photo cameras all over town and tied into police HQ, govt spying on your email, govt tracking of your USPS mail in and out, and all the unconstitutional attempts to impose firearms licensing, background checks, and other infringements of our liberties....)
everytning sounnds good and wholesome when carefully packaged for public consumption.....
add it all up... and a Police State ... fellow sheeples, prepare thyselves for more and more sheering
(oh yeah, happy April 15th, too. Aren’t you glad us sheeps get to pay for our own sheering?)
FCC will eventually require iris scan to use Internet. Iris scan to buy groceries, at the checkpoint, get on a flight.
Perhaps you bank can link your iris scan to your account and they won’t even need to give you the mark to buy and sell.
iris-altering contact lenses for wearer-privacy.
next problem.
I can see this at public venues to identify those who have outstanding warrants.
Note to self: Buy stock in sunglasses manufacturers.
Catches everyone but the criminals that the politicians want let off.
Mirror shades will make a comeback.
there are...active...countermeasures...
Don’t allow your iris scans to be placed into a database.
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