Robert Caplin for The New York Times
Theo Cushing, left, and Peter Cheesman were categorized and identified using a 3-D facial recognition device at International Biometrics Group.
Posted on 03/08/2008 4:35:02 PM PST by neverdem
The first camera in the room grabbed my face, put it on a screen and then began a computer analysis. It correctly identified me as male. Then the camera focused and followed my eyes, with a little box appearing around each one on the screen.
Below the image, a meter displayed each emotion that the computer had detected: Happy. Sad. Angry. Surprised. A trace of a smile triggered the happy meter; a raised eyebrow sent the anger meter skyrocketing. Some tic was registered as sadness.
A second camera went after solid data from the face. It measured distances from jaw to nose to brow, cheekbone to cheekbone and other planes of unnoticed geometry.
The computer built a model from these readings, then ran it through a database of other faces from people who had voluntarily submitted to the imaging.
The result?
“It shows a 51 percent likelihood that you’re a person enrolled here a while ago,” said Theo Cushing, a consultant for the International Biometrics Group. “But it didn’t say there’s a match.”
All this took place in a laboratory and showroom in Lower Manhattan operated by International Biometrics, which tests the technologies of biometrics — the quick measurement of human characteristics that are thought to be unique and, thus, a trustworthy way of identifying people.
Few biometrics have been chased as hard and — so far — as futilely as systems that can recognize faces from long distances, with the Department of Defense investing hundreds of millions of dollars in them in recent years.
If they worked, such systems could look over crowds of people, or just one person at a time, and see if a face matched any image in a database. This is described as “mass covert data capture” in the world of biometrics...
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holy Orwellian Nightmare, batman!
how many innocent people's lives do you think will be ruined?
More or fewer than HillaryCare?
All of them, unfortunately.
How do you suppose they'd categorize this fellow?
Democrat or Code Pink would be my guess
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