Security,TV Monitoring systems, and Trail Tracker

[WVBill]

Harv:

You're correct. Image recognition technology is very advanced.

A couple of years ago, my company did some work for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). We worked with a technology company that had developed a way to recognize faces from any image source. It worked by measuring the distances between facial features (eye-to-eye, ear-to-ear, eye-to-nose, nose-to-lip, etc) on an known photo then comparing them to the same distances on faces in an unknown photo. These feature distances can't be altered by disguises. The ratios between them are the same no matter what the size of the image. They demonstrated the ability to detect a person in a crowd from an airport surveillance camera shot. Pretty neat (even if boring) stuff!

WVBill

 

[Harv]

Hey, that's cool stuff, WVBill!

I had heard about facial recognition but I didn't know how they determined a match.

There's some dang clever people out there. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[heehaw]

i've tested 4-5 vcr's; none of them will record if the record button is down when the power comes on; the record button has to be pushed "after" the power is applied; what brand are you folks using with the record button taped down??
heehaw