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CI: So what is the speed? lower cost that just spends most of its time down or
DC: Recognition is under a second. not recognising people and that’s going to prove
more expensive in a revenue sense than buying the
CI: Why is it so much quicker? equipment that will actually do the job first time.
DC: Ease of use and the way it matches, it just
works incredibly fast. If you’re using for instance a CI: What does the actual kit comprise?
fingerprint, you put your finger down, it looks at your DC: There’s a couple of parts to it; one is the
fingerprint, decides if it’s correct and gives a match, enrolment station, and your details are stored on to a
and if not you go back through the process again. computer. It is a system that measures ground-based
The A4 Bioscript facial recognition system works in points on the face, so this is not a system that looks
real time, well virtually real time, it’s doing 15 shots a at a picture of someone and looks
second, and it will get you in one of those if you’re on at light and shade and does a
the list. comparison against that. That
kind of system has a one
CI: Is it sacrificing any accuracy for speed if it’s inherent weakness and
under a second for recognition? that’s all you're looking
DC: Of the systems that have been tested by at is light and shade, so
Government agencies, it’s the only system that hasn’t if the lighting changes
been spoofed, so the answer is no. from when you took the
enrolment picture to
CI: So why isn’t everybody using it? when you want to use it
DC: It’s still a growing industry. The majority of in a real-life situation,
sales are into the States mainly, because there’s you’re going to have a
numbers out there. It’s a technology that people problem recognising
sometimes don’t trust, mainly I think because that. Those systems
fingerprints are pushed very hard, and have that don't like glasses,
hats, beards or
“…the major thing it’s
anything else, so that
technology’s not
going to save you is time
brilliant in that way.
and accuracy; you have to
A4 Vision/Bioscript
3D Facial
put that in the equation
Recognition
when you’re asking how
measures in sub-
millimetre patches
much something costs.” on the screen; it fires
a grid of invisible
light at the face
connotation that you’re a criminal because you had so it can even
your fingerprints taken, and I don’t think people like work in total
that. Another reason is that you have to physically darkness. The
work with it, and we’ve heard objections where grids distort
people don’t want to touch where someone else has according to
touched. If someone’s been eating for instance a the contours
bacon sandwich and touches the sensor, and some on the face
one else comes along who couldn’t touch bacon, we and the
have a major problem going on. system reads
the change of
CI: One of the major obstacles to the adoption of those angles
technology is cost, so how affordable is this, is it early and that is
days for the technology so it’s still quite expensive? how it
DC: It’s not the cheapest technology out there, but measures you; it
it has been around for about seven years, and been takes a number of hard
sold for about five of those, so it’s still maturing. points across the face so the
Prices are more expensive than for fingerprint nose, the top of the eyes, the chin, the lips,
readers because you can pick those up very cheaply areas that don’t change dramatically over the life
these days, but there are inherent problems, and the span of the person after about the age of 11. Those
major thing it’s going to save you is time and minutiae are then stored as the comparison, you can
accuracy; you have to put that in the equation when either run it then as a pure one-to-one so either
you’re asking how much something costs. The main against a swipe card if people are using those,
questions are does it do the job, does it work tracking cards or whatever, or one-to-many so it can
effectively, is it reliable? So you can buy something at search databases.
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