Microsoft suspected the creators of the terrorist recognition complex of plagiarism

The Russian representative office of Microsoft Corporation suspected the Integrated Security Technology company, which developed the Spartan 300 intelligent terrorist recognition system, of plagiarism, the Izvestia newspaper writes. The corporation asked KTB to explain why the Kinect touch controller used in Xbox 360 gaming consoles with the Microsoft logo stuck in the base of the complex.


In the middle of February 2013, a story about a new development Spartan 300, a complex capable of defining its intentions by human behavior and facial expression, was shown on the TV channel Moscow 24. In addition, the complex, in which, according to the developers, a “specially trained neural network” is used, can determine the basic parameters of a person (height, completeness) and memorize the resulting image, which can later be used to identify people in search.


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For example, a special camera of the “Spartan 300” complex, which is responsible for face recognition with emphasis on the eyes and nasolabial triangle, is engaged in scanning a person, for example, on passport control. The image from such a camera is subsequently transmitted to a special computer complex, which deals with its combination with a black and white “depth map”. "Integrated security technologies" have already agreed to supply the complex to the Ministry of the Interior.

It was the camera of the new complex, which is designed to help security forces to identify suspicious people in the crowd, and caused discontent with Microsoft. Outwardly, it is indistinguishable from the Kinect controller; in the plot, the logo on the camera was sealed with a label that says “Spartan 300”. Microsoft asked KTB for a license agreement to use the controller, but has not yet received the necessary documents.

It should be noted that initially Kinect is equipped with sensors with artificially reduced resolution. Microsoft did this to make the product cheaper. As a result, the controller is able to recognize only human movement, but the small facial expressions of the face are practically inaccessible to it (for recognition it needs good lighting, and the camera needs to be brought very close to the face). In the form in which Kinect is sold on the market, the controller is not suitable for identifying terrorists.

Meanwhile, KTB claims that the sensor used in their system is able to recognize head, eye, eyebrow and lip movements. It is for this fine facial motility that the recognition of a person’s emotions and psychological state is made.
Data from the site Lenta.ru