If you have ever seen the movie Terminator, then you know the Terminator had the ability to scan human faces for recognition. Soon technology may bring this ability to the real world, starting in Brazil. With the World Cup coming up in 2014, the cops will really be able to scan the crowds for bad guys. How you ask? They will all be wearing sunglasses that will be equipped with cameras. These cameras have the strength to scan up to 400 identified criminals a second. I find it hard to believe Mr. Bad Guy can hide in with the civilians now.
What if they are far off in the back? As long as the criminal is within 12 miles then their facial structure can be scanned. The cameras in the sunglasses can scan 46,000 points on the human face to create an exact match of the criminals in the database. Through a wireless connection, the sunglasses can attempt to match their results with up to 13 million profiles. What happens if the find a match? A section of the shades will bring up instructions for the officer’s next move. I think they should relay a successful scan between officers, this way the other officers in his/her close proximity will receive the same scan alert and directions for a group effort in the takedown.
They still have three years to complete this technology before the big event finally gets there but once it arrives how long before you or I can own a pair of these terminator shades? Will we be able to scan our peers just as the cops can or will we be limited by some unknown protocol? I find it hard to believe that this sort of power will be made public considering how easy it might be to reverse engineer the shades. What I mean by this is that maybe with the right tools and skills a hacker could tap into the police database and create their own server with police recognition technology.
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Great post! My first thoughts are how long would it take for a computer system to go through 46,000 facial points and then 13 million profiles. I guess you would have to have a server set-up similar to IBM's Watson if you didn't want the bad guys to run away while you were trying to identify them. And then there is always plastic surgery . . .
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