Surveillance system searches million of faces per second, looking for a match
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A new video surveillance system is able to search through data on 36 million faces per second, looking for a match for a specific individual (Image: DigInfo)
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Japan’s Hitachi Kokusai Electric has developed a surveillance system that can automatically detect a face in either a provided photo or video footage, then search for that same face in other video provided by networked cameras. While such facial recognition systems have been seen before, this one is able to compare the target face against others at an astounding rate of 36 million faces per second.
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