Engineers Test Highly Accurate Face Recognition
“You can take off that ninja mask now. A new facial-recognition algorithm created by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is able to recognize faces with 90-95 percent accuracy, even if the eyes, nose and mouth are obscured.”
Categories: Big Brother · Face Recognition
Tagged: Big Brother, Facial Recognition
Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?
“If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.”
[Update] Check out Comcast’s Response
Categories: Big Brother · Comcast · Telecom
Tagged: Big Brother, Comcast, Telecom
