Australian researchers are working on a way to use soft biometrics such as estimated height, weight, skin and hair colour to identify a particular person in video footage...
Associate Professor Fookes said despite video analytics systems, which did motion detection, unattended baggage detection or intrusion detection, high-level tracking and recognition was still some way off.I'll second Professor Fookes. These automated systems are indeed pretty far down the road. Related thoughts:
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