Face Recognition and implications on society By Zubin Singh ICS 131

How was the 3D modeling achieved in the video? System combines deformable 3D models with computer graphics simulation of projection and illumination

Database lookup

After close match, image adjusted

Implications of face recognition systems in society (pro)

Implications of face recognition systems in society (pro) This technology is just like monitoring a person’s location and actions through a combination of existing technologies such as credit card records, cell phones, and global positioning systems in automobiles Except its through pictures “Police are enthusiastic about the system, saying it is no different from an officer standing on a street corner with a criminal’s photograph in hand and checking out a passing crowd. (

Implications of face recognition systems in society (con) “privacy advocates have long worried that such biometrics software could be abused, leading to a surveillance society where people's every move is tracked” (

Implications of face recognition systems in society (con’s) This technology is a violation of the constitutional right to privacy. –Fourth Amendment right of all citizens to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. Should approval from a judge be required in order to place a person’s image in the watch list, perhaps in a process similar to the requirement for a telephone wiretap? Another potential concern is the wholesale archiving of images for possible later use. –The archive of images could then be “mined” in the future to find out if a certain person had been at the checkpoint in the past. (

What are the outcomes of a match?

Tampa, Florida face recognition system The Tampa Police Department in ditched a controversial facial- recognition system –Did not help catch even one criminal System scanned faces in a crowd and compared them to photographs of criminals in a database

Concerns of Tampa officials Critics warned that people could be falsely accused because of imprecise software that could misidentify people as criminals. Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said there has never been an instance of a facial- recognition system discovering a wanted criminal in the field in the United States.

Future of face recognition systems? What do you think with regards to face recognition systems becoming integrated into society? –Good/bad….WHY?!??!?!