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After several terrorist attacks in Germany over the past year ended in tragedy, the country is working to find a balance between privacy and potentially life-saving surveillance. A pilot project testing face recognition technology in Berlin's busy Sudkreuz train station has been scanning faces of passengers for the past 6 months and comparing them to a database of volunteer criminals. About 300 volunteers submitted photos to the project and agreed to allow their faces to be recognized by the system if they transited the station.
Moscow (Russia), Aug 26 (EFE) .- (Camera: Anush Janbabian) To enter the Moscow metro, one of the largest and most luxurious in the world, you no longer need a ticket, since the traveler can access the suburban thanks to a facial recognition payment system.FOOTAGE OF THE MOSCOW METRO THAT HAS INAUGURATED A NEW METHOD OF PAYMENT BY FACIAL RECOGNITION.
Hungarian researchers want to reassure the human companions of dogs that they do care about you. However, they don't particularly care for your face. In fact, CNN reports dogs can't even distinguish the front of your head from the back of it. Instead, dogs use more information from smell or larger parts of the body to identify people. Despite lacking specialized neural machinery to process faces, dogs nevertheless excel at eye contact, following gaze, and reading emotions from faces. The researchers say that as dogs domesticated, they learned that reading facial cues meant survival, even though they lacked a specific region in the brain to do so.
A firm from China have developed a facial recognition system that can work on people wearing masks.
Dame Cressida Dick has slammed critics of facial recognition technology, saying they are simply "ill-informed".
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