From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 23:13:41 MDT
This was reported in Risks Digest 22.10
<http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.10.html>. Palm Beach International
Airport tried to use face recognition software and concluded it didn't
work. Despite the vendor's inflated claims, they could not get a high
rate of IDs or a low rate of false IDs. This was also tried and dropped
in Tampa where the police had similar problems. The Tampa stadium also
dropped its software for similar problems. Despite the vendor's claims,
the software does not seem to be working in the real world. It also
seems to be common consensus among security professionals that face
recognition software does not work yet, despite the claims of technology.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com> ____________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 11:16:55 -0400 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: Face recognition kit fails in Fla airport Thomas C Greene in Washington, The Register 27 May 2002 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25444.html The face recognition system in experimental use at Palm Beach International Airport on 15 volunteers and a database of 250 snapshots. The success rate is less than 50%. Extrapolations also suggest a false-positive rate of about 50 passengers a day for a single checkpoint handling 5,000 passengers. "Eyeglasses gave the system a great deal of difficulty, in spite of copious Visionics marketing hype denying this particular glitch. Small rotations of the head, fifteen to thirty degrees off the camera's focal point, also bamboozled it repeatedly, and the lighting had to be just right." [PGN-ed for RISKS. For Dave's IP archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ]
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