From: "Benjamin Chad Wienke" <woodwose@mailexcite.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:38:03 +0800
To: "Cypherpunks List" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Subject: Re: [FWD] Finding a Face in the Crowd
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At 05:09 PM 11/16/97 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
>Oh well Mr. Orwell, you've never believe how far we've come...
>
>"Mugspot" Can Find A Face In The Crowd - Award-Winning Face
Recognition
>Software Prepares to Go to Work in the Streets
>
>Computer "eyes" are now up to such tasks as watching for fugitives in
>airline terminals and other busy locations. A sophisticated
>face-recognition system that placed first in recent Army competitive
>trials has been given the added ability to pick out faces in noisy or
>chaotic "street" environments.
><...snip...>
>
>The USC/Bochum system also shone in tests conducted under substandard
>lighting conditions: It lost only a small fraction of its accuracy,
>while competitors showed drastic falloffs in less-than-brilliant
>illumination.
>
>The USC/Bochum system uses an unusual approach that mimics the
>technique scientists believe the brain uses to recognize images. Von
>der Malsburg, whose principal research interests lie in the
>investigation of living brains, in fact carried out much of the
>original research on the system as part of an attempt to understand
>human face recognition. His research led to creating a computer model
>of the way the brain's visual cortex processes information.

To make this work really well, link it to the
listening/locating/voiceprinting system described in the "Technology
Secures Gunfire" thread for the purpose of aiming the cameras for
greatest effect.  1984's "Big Brother" wasn't shit compared to this.
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