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Airports to get facial recognition from 2022
The air passengers can use a face scan as their boarding pass from 2022. The first airports to roll out the facility are Kolkata, Pune, Varanasi and Vijayawada. What is the plan? The NEC Corporation Private Limited has been chosen by the Airport Authority of India to implement the project. The details of face recognition ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022
Topics: airport authorty of india • Airports • Facial recognition • Facial Recognition Technology • Kolkata • Pune • Varanasi • Vijayawada
Singapore: First Country to attach Facial Verification in National Identification Database
Singapore recently included facial recognition to its National Identity Database. And thereby, it has become the first country to include the technology in its national database. Highlights The system introduced is called “SingPass Face Verification”. Though this, a number of government services can be accessed online. It provides 400 online services including public housing applications ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News • International / World Current Affairs • Places in News Current Affairs
Topics: Automated Facial Recognition System • Competitiveness Index • Facial recognition • Facial recognition software • In Singapore
New York’s First attempt at Driver Facial recognition fails
A 2018 Metropolitan Transportation Authority installed recognition software on New York City’s Robert F. Kennedy Bridge has failed spectacularly at employing facial recognition on its highways. It couldn’t detect a single face “within acceptable parameters.” The problem may be inherent to the early state of facial recognition at these speeds. It sometimes has trouble recognizing ..
Topics: Elements of fiction • Facial recognition • Fiction • Fictional characters • Recognition • The Mask