This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Today we take look at facial systems. These can tag friends in Facebook photos or help identify suspects in the recent riots in Britain. Kurt Roemer is security strategist for Citrix Systems in Fort Lauderdale‚ Florida. He says technology makes it easier than ever for governments to identify . KURT ROEMER: " can go through and identify‚ profile and target people‚ basically in any order. And it is very
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Cognitive processes involved with face recognition To human beings‚ facial recognition is not only essential for identification of persons in the social context‚ but also a vital social tool. There are various reasons why facial recognition process is a vital to human beings. Facial recognition serves an essential purpose of identifying members within our society; as a result‚ we are able to select those that we can socialize with that aid our survival in society. For instance‚ the males are
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Facial memory and recognition are common daily activities and important forensic evidence in a trial or an investigation. Some people have difficulty in social interaction because of having face blindness and sometimes a suspect can be determined by the witness’ facial recognition. However‚ the reliability of facial recognition is being questioned for years because memory is a recreation of given information. It raises an interesting question to ask what factors improve or affect the accuracy of
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Facial recognition technology is a very well-known technology because of the high security it provides to crucial businesses and government agencies. According to the FBI this technology was‚ "Developed in the 1960s‚ the first semi-automated system for facial recognition required the administrator to locate features (such as eyes‚ ears‚ nose‚ and mouth) on photographs before it calculated distances and ratios to a common reference point" (Facial Recognition). Government agencies and crucial companies
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“What is facial recognition technology and how does it work?” since the 1990’s facial recognition technology has been used to identify criminals and missing children. The technology uses a previous picture of an individual’s face. Measurements such as the person’s nose width‚ length of their forehead‚ and width of the lips are digitally stored and the data is used to identify a person; this process is known as geometrical recognition. An alternative process called photometric recognition‚ generates
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Eyebrows in Facial Recognition | Research into the role of eyebrows by measuring the time taken to recognize a famous face in two separate conditions; where the face was altered to either have no eyebrows or no eyes and comparing the differences to determine whether eyebrows are the most influential facial feature in regards to identifying faces. | | | Abstract Sadr et al (2003) presented evidence suggesting that eyebrows are the most important feature in facial recognition. In their study
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Voice recognition software Patrick Maxfield CIS/207 July 24‚ 2013 Luciano Brito Voice recognition software Voice recognition software has come a long ways in a short time. It was first used in home appliances such as washing machines so the consumer could operate the washing controls through vocal commands and then the invention of mobile phones with voice-activated dialing came along. Know day’s voice recognition is so widely used that I could not begin to identify them all. The technology
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Disadvantages: a. Iris Recognition is intrusive. b. Due to fluctuations‚ the Iris is hard t pinpoint c. Iris Recognition is very expensive A. The iris is a small target and a scan cannot be performed properly if the person is more than a few meters way. In order for an iris to be properly scanned‚ the person’s head must be completely still. Eyelashes‚ lenses‚ and anything that would cause a reflection‚ could all make a scan difficult. It is a moving target and can be obscured by objects such as
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has started using is facial recognition. The freedictionary.com website defines facial recognition as: "biometric identification by scanning a person ’s face and matching it against a library of known faces‚" (The Free Dictionary‚ 2012) "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists." This paper will help one understand what facial recognition is‚ who uses facial recognition‚ and when they use it. This paper will take a look into a couple of cases where facial recognition has been used. Also
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Facial recognition technology has been very questionable on a national level and potential misuse of the technology has raised questions among very many people. Facial recognition is used by the police around the world to identify subject. Some people think that the facial recognition technology goes against constitutionally protected rights. The software identifies people from the different “points” on their face. Facial recognition is a controversial issue among the law and people because of the
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