Face Recognition: Who’s Watching & Why?

Face recognition technology is the least intrusive and fastest biometric technology. It works with the most obvious individual identifier – the human face. Facial recognition analyzes the characteristics of a person's face images input through a digital video camera. It measures the overall facial structure, including distances between eyes, nose, mouth, and jaw edges. These measurements are retained in a database and used as a comparison.

A newly emerging trend, claimed to achieve improved accuracies, is three-dimensional face recognition. This technique uses 3D sensors to capture information about the shape of a face. This information is then used to identify distinctive features on the surface of a face, such as the contour of the eye sockets, nose, and chin.

In this era of information and technology, many Govt & private organizations are maintaining their database consists of individual identification including facial identification; so why they are watching you and who are they? Whether it is the matter of privacy invasion or not but you should aware of those organizations who know a lot about you.

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