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> Porritt’s unit has its own software but this has been responsible for only one of the 2,010 identifications made since May 2015. DCI Mick Neville reckons tha
by niccl 10y ago
> Porritt’s unit has its own software but this has been responsible for only one of the 2,010 identifications made since May 2015. 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
And yet so much surveillance is based on using facial recognition software to identify 'people of interest. Here's an empirical study showing it doesn't really work.
- vintermann 10y agoThat's no empirical study. It's anecdote from one police department, and who knows what software they use. In the best case, maybe some 5-6 year old academic project that got commercialized. In the worst case, maybe something their nephew who's really good with computers wrote ("its own software" suggests some bespoke thing, which makes the latter more likely).
- desas 10y agoI know. It's L1 Identity Solutions ABIS Face Examiner