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Tri-City Hockey Crowds to Be Taped For .s. Security Research
Researchers will record images of fans at the Tri-City Americans' season opener, to determine if their technology can identify the faces of colleagues in the crowd.
Credit: AMShockey.com
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers will videotape the crowd at the season opening game for the Tri-City Americans hockey team in an attempt to improve facial recognition technologies.
The video will be used by the U.S. government to test the capabilities of facial recognition software that is available or in the prototype stage. Multiple cameras will be set up in the main entrance and in the hallways outside specific sections of the arena.
The researchers are not interested in capturing members of the public's faces, but rather they are trying to find PNNL staff in the crowd. Twenty PNNL staff members will be at the game to see how many times the detection software can find them and match them with already-shot still photos of them. All of the staff members will wear monitoring ankle bracelets that will signal when they are close enough to a monitor to potentially allow their face to be recognized. The cameras will be positioned at different heights to get high and low angles of faces and they will collect video in areas with different lighting.
The video will be used to determine how many of the 20 PNNL faces the technology can identify in the crowd, as well as how many times the video picks out the face of a random member of the public.
From Tri-City Herald (WA)
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