Marios Savvides, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a technology capable of identifying a person several meters away as precisely as with fingerprints.
This long-range iris recognition device is the first of its kind according to its designer. It is based on the fact that, as our fingerprints, our iris are unique. But where digital identification requires a contact, recognition technology works even when the subject is distant.
In a video, Marios Savvides said his system could be used during police controls: the iris driver will be analyzed when it casts a glance in his rearview mirror, allowing the officer to know s' he is dealing with an offender. According to the US magazine The Atlantic, this long-range iris recognition device could have helped Mark Collins, a traffic policeman assaulted by a repeat offender.
But the technology also raises many ethical issues raised by The Atlantic: for example a government could decide to "scan" all the people wandering the streets. Or identify a political activist who seek to conceal his identity in disguise.
For Professor of Pittsburgh, this criticism does not hold water: we'd already all "hounded" constantly with our loyalty and credit cards, via facial recognition devices ... It also stresses the value of his invention which could be used to identify victims of human trafficking or kidnapping. And if he said, Hollywood has given bad press iris recognition system - we remember the disturbing company under control of Minority Report - its purpose is primarily to define how it can help the company with his invention .
If the devices marketed today are short range and require the cooperation of the scanned person, they are already used in the US to identify the prisoners and India to give each resident a unique number entitling using social.
This long-range iris recognition device is the first of its kind according to its designer. It is based on the fact that, as our fingerprints, our iris are unique. But where digital identification requires a contact, recognition technology works even when the subject is distant.
In a video, Marios Savvides said his system could be used during police controls: the iris driver will be analyzed when it casts a glance in his rearview mirror, allowing the officer to know s' he is dealing with an offender. According to the US magazine The Atlantic, this long-range iris recognition device could have helped Mark Collins, a traffic policeman assaulted by a repeat offender.
But the technology also raises many ethical issues raised by The Atlantic: for example a government could decide to "scan" all the people wandering the streets. Or identify a political activist who seek to conceal his identity in disguise.
For Professor of Pittsburgh, this criticism does not hold water: we'd already all "hounded" constantly with our loyalty and credit cards, via facial recognition devices ... It also stresses the value of his invention which could be used to identify victims of human trafficking or kidnapping. And if he said, Hollywood has given bad press iris recognition system - we remember the disturbing company under control of Minority Report - its purpose is primarily to define how it can help the company with his invention .
If the devices marketed today are short range and require the cooperation of the scanned person, they are already used in the US to identify the prisoners and India to give each resident a unique number entitling using social.
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