[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Joost van de Griek <jvdg at sparcpark.net>
>Date: 2007/06/02 Sat AM 07:56:28 CDT
>To: SunGeeks <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

>On 6/2/07 2:48 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> The effort to implement this in real-time (the only way this is even 
remotely
>> interesting) is mind-boggling complex. It would require an infinite number 
of
>> cameras, an inventory of all the "interesting" faces, and a large enough 
data
>> processing complex to filter all the interesting faces out of the feeds 
from
>> that infinite number of cameras...
>
>Matter of time. In the UK, there is now one "security" camera per fifteen
>citizens, if I'm remembering the numbers correctly. That's some scary
>statistic.

<snip>

CCTV bunker in UK:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=459200&in_page_id=1770

4 Million cameras in UK, avg. person on 300 or so of them every day...

Lionel