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Facial Recognition - This is who person is based on this face

Facial Detection - This part of image is a face

The article is referring to facial detection and object classification and not, as is mentioned, facial recognition. Also, it would certainly NOT be real time. Computers are still quite poor at this even if they take a super long amount of time and processing power.

[randomdrake]

The article is referring to facial detection and object classification and not, as is mentioned, facial recognition. Also, it would certainly NOT be real time. Computers are still quite poor at this even if they take a super long amount of time and processing power.

Visiting the links presented in the article, you'll find this is possibly not correct. The article may have misrepresented but it does lead to a study that specifically mentions "facial recognition" capabilities on these devices.

"A Market Survey on Body Worn Camera Technologies" from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and sponsored by the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice in November of 2016 found 9 different devices capable of facial recognition[1]. The software itself comes from a handful of startups and technology companies.

They define facial recognition: "Facial recognition features allow the user to identify or verify a person from a digital image or a video frame."

Relevant to Hacker News, this article is timely probably due to the mentioned Dextro being acquired by AXON[2] (owned by TASER) to utilize their software in their body camera[3].

[1] - https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/250381.pdf

[2] - https://medium.com/@dextro_co/dextro-announcement-d21212463b...

[3] - https://buy.taser.com/axon-body-camera/

[dang]

Ok, we replaced the submitted title ("Police Body Cams Have Real-Time Facial Recognition") with the first part of the subtitle. If someone can suggest a better (more accurate and neutral) title for the article, we can change it again.

The submitter was correct not to use the article's title, because that one was too baity. But it's usually much better to pick alternative language from the article itself—such as a title or representative sentence—than to make up a new title oneself.

[anigbrowl]

And who would have thought back in 2007 that Facebook would be able tot identify people in photos with relative accuracy in close to real time? It's possible and there are large social incentives to do it because it has the potential to benefit people in many contexts. Those are the sufficient conditions for any given technology to become near ubiquitous.