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This isn't related to fooling humans. There is no passport control officer. Immigration use automated barriers and facial recognition to match the person to th
by k1t 6y ago
This isn't related to fooling humans. There is no passport control officer.
Immigration use automated barriers and facial recognition to match the person to the digital photo on the passport chip.
The trick in the article causes the facial recognition algorithm to accept two different people for the same passport.
- iso1631 6y agoAbout a decade ago we had iris scanning at London Heathrow. You had to register upfront, and the idea was only frequent flyers would be registered, but it was great, the lines were short - you didn't even need to get your passport out. It started getting a bit silly towards the end as unregistered people started clogging up the queues, but it was far faster than the "automatic passport scanning" stuff. Surely that was harder to forge than a passport photo. I assume the company in charge didn't offer enough bribes to the politicians making the decision.
- germanier 6y agoThe trick also fools humans who still exist at all borders, including at automated gates (where humans get to see each comparison although I can't imagine them being to attentive at the end of their shift).