When the brain power and the memory of the people are fading away, the smartphones are slowly taking its place. Imagine the face of the world with the mobile devices capable of recognizing and identifying anyone’s face. This can be amazing and scary too. The reason why it is amazing is that it is empowering people because ordinary people can wield such power in their handheld devices and scary because government, corporations and strangers on the street can use this for their advantages.
As We Speak:
As we speak about the face recognition technology, the tech devices like smartphones and laptops are using it as a security lock. The companies are using this technological wonder as additional features in their tech devices. Whatever use of this technology you watch in the movies like James Bond and Mission Impossible is just the work of fiction and its use for such activities in the real world hasn’t reported yet.
The recent major use of this technology was in the Google Glass. The Google Glass was one of the major devices which introduces the face recognition technology commercially. The Google Glass has this incredible technology to provide the complete detail of any person if it is available online by recognizing the faces of the random people. Because of other features of the Google Glass and it didn’t perform at it was expected, the people didn’t get the real understanding of the power of the face recognition technology.
Moreover, the casinos are far ahead in using the face recognition technology than the security forces. The face recognition system in casino helps them to find if anyone from the blacklist people is gambling in the casino. They use this technology to safe their business from all the faults and cheatings they did. Moreover, they also use the face recognition technology for finding out that excitement and the expressions of the winner of any game in the casino are real or not. This also helps them to find out either the player cheating or playing the fair game. In my humble opinion, the universities and the colleges also use this technology to their students especially business students to find out either the student used fair means only to clear their semester or took any law assignment help from online academic writing company.
Now You See:
The facial recognition system that we have right now has the accuracy of 99% under the best circumstances. The best circumstances for the facial recognition system is to have an ideal “probe” image and having the same sort of ideal images for comparison in the database for possible matches. However, the major issue that the government agencies facing issue is the quality of the CCTV or other surveillance cameras. These cameras don’t take the pictures and the footages of enough quality which can come under the best circumstance and can provide 99% accuracy. Moreover, the human faces can change in different ways. A person can grow a beard, or his face complexion can be changed over the time that is why the government authorities don’t feel that face recognition technology can be applied.
The algorithm of the facial recognition work on video and photos in the same way. However, the video in a better quality can provide better result because a video is a set of multiple images and can provide different angles of a single person. These different angles help the system to find a match with better accuracy and can be cross-examined with all different angles available. However to use this technology is not as simple and fascinating as it sounds. The latest example of the facial recognition system is the Boston Marathon bombing. There is a clear video available of the Boston Marathon bombing, but the UK authorities are unable to use this video for the facial recognition system because this system is not as accurate as it should be for the investigation of such tragic incident.
Problems In Accuracy:
Even the best facial recognition system is not good enough to find the right match through the image of a person with sunglasses or a profile shot with one eye closed. However, a badly angled photo or video camera image doesn’t mean that we have nothing to get from these things. A company name Scheuapp has developed a solution of this issue of facial recognitions system and selling this technology to the US law enforcement and the US military from last ten years. This company made a breakthrough in the facial recognition system by developing a system which can convert a 2D image into a 3D image which helps the system to find the best possible match. By converting a 2D image into a 3D image help, the algorithm of the facial recognition system works most efficiently.
Faces For The Future:
If Google aims to bring back it wearable devices like the smart glasses Google Glasses, then we can see a drastic advancement in the facial recognition system technology. However, right now Google is not in the mood of using this technology again and has imposed a self-proclaimed block on this technology in sight of the criticism they faced when the first version of Google Glass launched. However, the news is good from the horse’s mouth. The CEO of OrebusInc Li and Ning Xu believe that soon Google will lift the ban from the facial recognition system. The same company too have a plan of launching highly advanced facial recognition system and an open software tool-kit service which they would call Rekognition for the devices like Google Glass.
Conclusion:
In the end, it is safe to say that the more we go advance in the facial recognition technology the more we will cover the distance between the private to public life. The laymen are very slow and hesitant in making its life public that is why sharing personal photos and updating the information regarding going anywhere on the social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter would seem crazy a decade ago. The final line of this discussion should be the same as the female CEO of OrebusInc Li said. According to her, the privacy issues about the use of facial recognition technology are big, but all are solvable concerns.
Author Bio:
Darnel Boaz is a Master in Literature and his this incredible ability to write a blog on almost every niche. With his great writing abilities, he also writes for the academic writing company and gives assignment assistance UK to the students in need.