FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY:
THE NEW “GLASS SLIPPER” By Steven C. Bennett. Esq.
describe your new acquaintance to a few friends, but no one can provide an identification. You go home; alone and frustrated.
You meet 47 Change the scene if you like (to a business meeting or sales conference, or any other circumstance
where you may have casual meetings). What if you could, almost instantly, “put a name to a face,” even on these fleetest of encounters?
Increasingly, Internet-based facial recognition technology may provide such solutions. One prototype
system, for example, permits a user to take a digital image (with a cellular telephone camera), and upload the image to a web-site, which scans and compares the sample image to template images in the site’s database. See
www.tat.se/site/showroom. At present, the system is purely “opt-in,” meaning that the template images in the database are only those that users affirmatively choose to include. If expanded, to include public im- ages from other sources (web-sites, blogs, and open social networking information) a very broad system for recognition could be devised.
someone at a party. She (or he) is cute, and you’re interested. But you do not catch the name, and in the crush of the party you become separated. You
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