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> “Caballero was gobsmacked,” Rabbett told me. “He then got a bit arsey, saying, ‘I’m not speaking to you until I’ve had a cigarette, I’m getting out of here, y
by orf 10y ago
> “Caballero was gobsmacked,” Rabbett told me. “He then got a bit arsey, saying, ‘I’m not speaking to you until I’ve had a cigarette, I’m getting out of here, you can’t do this to me.’ And then it was: ‘Yeah, it’s gonna be a full hands-up. Let’s get it done.’”
I love English slang. Great article as well, I was surprised that the Scotland Yard group was the only one in the world.
> DCI Mick Neville reckons that it will be ten to 20 years before software is advanced enough to be a useful tool, and even then super-recognisers will still be needed to analyse the results and identify the suspects.
Perhaps augmentation is a better approach than replacement. By that I mean it might be really useful for them to be able to search a database of mugshots or photos for 'people with bigish ears, smallish nose and a spot on the left cheek'.
- zeristor 10y agoAre you 'aving a laugh?
- buro9 10y ago> I love English slang. I had to read that a few times to spot the slang. I grew up in a poor part of London, on a rough estate, crime everywhere. Aside from the slang (which is typical) the thing I always liked about the interactions with police here was the "hands-up" moment. Obviously not literal as our police don't have guns, but once identified very few people flee, and "it's a fair cop guv'" is also a typical response and rational too.
- vintermann 10y agoI'm betting that the system they have is an old pre-NN thing. Certainly not state of the art. The big gains in image recognition has happened fairly recently. Here's a survey of results on the Labeled Faces in the Wild dataset: https://people.cs.umass.edu/~elm/papers/LFW_survey.pdf https://people.cs.umass.edu/~elm/papers/LFW_survey.pdf
- desas 10y agoThey use L1 Identity Solutions ABIS Face Examiner