Automated Face Recognition
Face recognition is one of the next big violations of privacy.
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Large databases of tagged face metrics are build with the goal of commercial use in future. The Facebook software tagged 30-40 billion fotos and every month 2.5 billion fotos are added. Face.com offers an API for their face recognition software and database. It is hosted in the cloud. You can use it for 5.000 fotos per hour for free. Today it is possible to identify 65 million individuals with this database.
A world leading company is Cognitec (Saxonia, Germany). In most cases Cognitec is working for gouverments. For the Mexican gouverment the passport photos of all the 80 million inhabitants were analyzed and the face metrics are provided in a database. 20 federeal US-states are using the service for millions of driver's licence fotos. The largest project of Cognitec is a secret database for US intelligence services. This database can identify 100 million individuals.
Videos
VideoSurf will publish a software for face recognition in videos this year. The software can scan a video and creates an index of identified individuals with timestamps. It is easy to jump to the position, where a person turns up in the video. The face metrics database of VideoSurf contains 60,000 well known people.
Smartphone software
All steps of automated face recognition can be done by a smartphone. Large databases can connect via Internet. Neven Vision Inc. (acquired by Google) developed such an face recognition app for photos taken by your smartphone. Google did not release the app at the moment. The software Viewdle (presented at the CES in Las Vegas this year) does not need a photo. It can display the names of identified individuals and additional informations from Facebook und Twitter in the preview screen of a camera.
CV Dazzle
Computer Vision Dazzle is a project by Adam Harvey. It combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs. The goal of CV Dazzle is to break apart the gestalt of a face, or object, and make it undetectable to computer vision algorithms, in particular face detection.

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