Smile for the camera: iFace recognition for iPhone
If you have to be subjected to surveillance, identification and security profiling, might as well have a shiny iPhone in the mix to make the erosion of your privacy rights that much easier to stomach. That's the scenario now that Animetrics' iPhone facial recognition product, iFace, is in limited release (per the Manchester Union Leader). Paired with the company's FIMS facial characteristics database, the iPhone app will allow law enforcement or military personnel to do field analysis of facial snapshots and possibly identify persons of interest.
While there are already portable devices that can be used to measure other biometric identifiers (iris imaging, fingerprints and the like), iFace is the first handheld product that will do facial feature recognition. Most of the testing for iFace has been done under controlled imaging conditions, so it's not clear yet how well the tool will perform in the real world.
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Ed said 3:47PM on 9-26-2008
Let's hope they only use it in bright sunlight...
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oh my said 4:07PM on 9-26-2008
according to the graphic on their page, they're only into profiling good looking women.
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andy said 9:01PM on 9-26-2008
I can't even get ScanLife or 2D Sense to decode QR codes on my iPhone—I'd hate to be in the position where the iPhone could decide whether or not you're going to Gitmo...
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Jash Sayani said 6:01AM on 9-27-2008
Nice. Face recognition for iPhone. Would work better if the iPhone would have a front camara !
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Tomahawk said 9:18AM on 9-27-2008
I just want an option to have a countdown on the camera, like there is in Photobooth. Is that too hard to ask?
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