Getting Personal: Facial Recognition Spots the Suspects (GovernmentVideo.com)
Granted, integrated face recognition/video surveillance systems are not perfect—false positives do happen. Still, “Accuracy has improved nearly two full orders of magnitude since the large scale studies [that were] published in 2002,” says Ken Nosker, president of Fulcrum Biometrics. “In the latest independent study published by NIST, researchers have shown that seven tested algorithms performed as good as or better at matching faces than humans were able to do.
