August 28, 2013 – by Peter B. Counter
Border control, access control, airport security and law enforcement: these are the verticals that are talked about most when the topic of facial recognition biometrics lands on the table. Fingerprints might be making headway when it comes to the mainstream mobile market, but when it comes to a contactless and (relatively) long distance solution for government or business: it’s facial recognition’s party.
Crowdsourced social trend website WikiTrend.org announced today that it will be spotlighting the rise of facial recognition technology. The comprehensive look at face biometrics solutions covers ground from the novel: a Finish payment system that authenticated based on user’s smiles; to the arguably invasive: advertising solutions that cross reference faces caught on camera with Facebook profiles.
The global editor of WikiTrend.org, Daniel Levine, speaks to this obstacle: “Assuming the public can see benefits of this technology over and above the privacy concerns that will also surely arise, the future of facial recognition technology is really quite exciting.”
Facial recognition, largely because it can be integrated with existing camera infrastructure and because face-prints can be captured without a person’s knowledge, tends to stir up controversy. Take a rare instance of consumer facial recognition, the next generation Microsoft videogame console for instance. The Xbox One, which integrates facial recognition as a method of identifying players and controlling game experiences, received cries of Big Brother so loud that many proposed features were retracted in preparation for the system’s November 2013 release.
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