Hitachi Kokusai Electric has developed a new face recognition system.

The new facial recognition system works much faster than any other. Once I saw a movie, I don’t remember which one, where photos of criminals got into the police car of the future for comparison with the standard. The change of images was quite fast, but still noticeable to the eye. The reality in this case is much more perfect cine "futurism", since the system from Hitachi Kokusai Electric recognizes faces at a speed of 36 million images per second.

At the same time, the system can identify a person not only on a high-quality photographic portrait, but also on an ordinary photo. Search results are shown immediately, highlighting the "candidates" for the image you are looking for. The user of the system can choose the found image, or ask the system to look further. By the way, the new technology allows you to identify a person, even if the photo shows it a little to the side (up to 30 degrees).
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As far as can be understood from the description, for face identification it is enough that the image reaches a size of 40 * 40 pixels. Of course, it is hard to believe that with this permission identification will proceed correctly with at least 90% probability. However, the developers claim that the system can work with this permission.



The company's management believes that the new technology may be useful to companies dealing with a large number of customers. These may be railway companies, energy companies, law enforcement agencies, large stores. The recognition system will be put on sale in the next fiscal year. Presumably, this technology will be very popular. Of course, if she really does what the developers say.

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