NEC unveils facial recognition system for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

The problem with disguises of this nature is once you know what you’re looking for you can easily adjust the algorithm and retrograde until you find the origin of your subject, assuming you have all the raw source data.

In addition anyone who has worked in this area knows the state of the art is in motion tracking and extracting the signals from an individual’s movements, which can be far more unique and works a lot better with lower resolution data and from farther away without the need to do expensive 3D reconstruction.

Contrary to what most people assume, these systems are more about localization than they are trying to recognize faces against some pre-known database, so just establishing cardinality is usually sufficient.

In an active shooter situation, having data on where the person has been, where they are now, and where they are likely to go next is the problem they are often times trying to solve. These systems can be used for evil like all tech but can’t we at least recognize the utility in keeping crowds of people safe and trying to mitigate death where time is of the essence?