Advantages of Face Recognition (In Surveillance)

Advantages of Facial Recognition in Surveillance

The concept of recognizing someone from facial features is intuitive, facial recognition, as a biometric, makes human recognition a more automated, computerized process. What sets apart facial recognition from other biometrics is that it can be used for surveillance purposes. For example, public safety authorities want to locate certain individuals such as wanted criminals, suspected terrorists, and missing children. Facial recognition may have the potential to help the authorities with this mission. Facial recognition offers several advantages.

The system captures faces of people in public areas, which minimizes legal concerns for reasons explained below. Moreover, since faces can be captured from some distance away, facial recognition can be done without any physical contact. This feature also gives facial recognition a clandestine or covert capability.

For any biometric system to operate, it must have records in its database against which it can search for matches. Facial recognition is able to leverage existing databases in many cases. For example, there are high quality mugshots of criminals readily available to law enforcement. Similarly, facial recognition is often able to leverage existing surveillance systems such as surveillance cameras or closed circuit television (CCTV).

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