VisionSphere Technologies: Networked Facial Recognition Technology Helps Law Enforcement Agencies Identify Suspects.Business Editors "There are other facial recognition Noun 1. facial recognition - biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces; "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists" automatic face recognition, face recognition programs but what is unique about VisionSphere's technology is its capacity to integrate into other databases" said Lee Fraser, superintendent with the office in charge of forensic identification Forensic Identification is the application of forensic science and technology to identify specific objects from the trace evidence they leave, often at a crime scene or the scene of an accident. Forensic means "for the courts". services, RCMP. Mr. Fraser was summing up a demonstration of VisionSphere Technologies Inc.'s Networked Facial Recognition Technology, hosted by the Canadian Police Research Centre The Canadian Police Research Centre (CPRC) is a partnership among the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the National Research Council of Canada. (CPRC CPRC Chronic Poverty Research Centre (Manchester, UK) CPRC Canadian Police Research Centre CPRC California Policy Research Center (University of California) ), on June 6, in Ottawa. The event was used as an opportunity to launch VisionSphere's Project BlueBear pilot, sponsored by the CPRC to test and evaluate the effectiveness of facial recognition technology to securely search and identify suspects across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. . "It's probably one of our most ambitious projects yet," said John Arnold, chief scientist for the CPRC, at the launch. Currently, police departments can only check the identity of a suspect being booked against their own database of mug shots, using text-based searches. Police departments that cannot afford to purchase a records management system cannot easily or quickly able to acquire and share critical information with larger police departments. The VSIdent system will permit the smaller police departments to search existing mug shot databases of participating police services. VisionSphere's demonstration of its VSIdent system, involved the searching of 11,000 mug shots, located in databases in four cities - Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Chatham-Kent. A distributed network search was conducted by simultaneously comparing the live image of a person with the 11,000 mug shots. VSIdent found the person's duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. image and ranked it first. Additional searches using a digital image, an image extracted from a video surveillance tape, and a composite image also produced excellent results. VisionSphere's chief executive officer, Sal Khan khan Historically, the ruler or monarch of a Mongol tribe. Early on a distinction was made between the title of khan and that of khakan, or “great khan.” Later the term khan was adopted by the Seljuq and Khwarezm-Shah dynasties as a title for the highest , points out that the VSIdent can be deployed using existing IT infrastructure and the Global Internet: "It doesn't require new capital investments, major upgrades, or the creation of a Virtual Private Network." He also underlined the high standards of security built into the VSIdent system. VisionSphere Technologies is the leader in the development of face recognition solutions, using proprietary software and hardware integrated to meet the needs of this rapidly growing application. |
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