An Overview of Biometric Face Recognition and Video Identifying Technologies by Alice Osborn
Biometric face recognition technologies are a new and evolving measure that governments and firms use to identify criminals and protect innocent people. However, the makers of this biometric face technology must contend with the inevitable ethical issues: what if the wrong person is identified... Some of these concerns have kept face recognition products from reaching their full potential, but these concerns will fall by the wayside when governments and firms acknowledge that face recognition technology is the best passive and non-intrusive recognition technology available.

How Biometric Technology is Used in Video Surveillance by Alice Osborn
As the recent July 7th London bombings would reveal, biometric technology images from over 200,000 video surveillance cameras are key weapons against the terrorists. What makes these biometric cameras so extraordinary is that these cameras have a 360-spherical lens, called a fisheye, to follow... Its ActiveFusion surveillance technology blends 3-D face, 2-D face, and fingerprint biometrics to claim submillimeter accuracy. ... How to evaluate these biometric solutions Although evaluation techniques for biometric solutions are not standardized, research enterprises and commercial firms are...

The Future of Biometrics -- Trends and Emerging Uses for Biometric Technology by Alice Osborn
The future of biometrics holds great promise for law enforcement applications, as well for private industry uses. By measuring facial geometry, surveillance systems can identify suspects against characteristics stored in the security system's database. ... In the future, biometric technology will further develop 3-D infrared facial recognition access control, real-time facial recognition passive surveillance, and visitor management authentication systems. ... Today, A4Vision uses a 3-D infrared facial recognition system to project subdued light onto a subject's face for optimal...

Biometrics History -- Looking at Biometric Technologies from Past to Present by Alice Osborn
The ancient Egyptians and the Chinese played a large role in biometrics' history. Although biometric technology seems to belong in the twenty-first century, the history of biometrics goes back thousands of years. Today, the focus is on using biometric face recognition and identifying... Face recognition biometrics has not reached the prevalent level of fingerprinting, but with constant technological pushes and with the threat of terrorism, researchers and biometric developers will hone this security technology for the twenty-first century.

All-seeing Eye: The History of Video Surveillance by Nahshon Roberts
There are eyes everywhere, and they do not belong to humans. In today's fast-paced modern world, video surveillance has become as essential to society as security guards and gateways. Mention video surveillance and the average Joe will instantly associate the term with video cameras mounted in... In December 2003, the Royal Palm Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona installed face recognition video surveillance. ... In May 2002, facial recognition software was installed on the computer video surveillance cameras at Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.

Why Go To College? by Moussa Ba
Education is an investment, though, and the fact is that while people pay a lot to go college, they get a lot more over the span of their careers than those who don’t. IT professionals have options when it comes to charting career paths. They can go to a technical institute or spend their first... Colleges and universities struggle to keep their IT curricula up to date because of a combination of the rapid pace of change in technology and the often rigid structure of academic environments. ... Knowing that about a grand or two can get you a certification, what will you do when face the...

How Security Camera Systems Work by Derek Hanksworth
Security camera systems work via closed-circuit television (CCTV). This CCTV differs from broadcast television because all of the components of the cameras and televisions are linked with cables or alternate direct means. CCTV can be viewed in real-time, and there is no need to broadcast a signal. ... Critics of facial recognition technology site the potentiality for mass surveillance and the further loss of civil liberties. ... Current CCTV technology being developed in the UK and the US aims at creating a computerized monitoring system that would allow security guards and CCTV operators...

DVR Surveillance by Max Bellamy
One area that DVR technology has gained wide acceptance in is surveillance and monitoring. DVR based surveillance systems can be used in businesses and homes where monitoring is needed ensure safety. By hooking up with a PC, this technology allows you to constantly monitor a particular area from... With this technology, video can be stored for three months or more. ... This makes recognition of faces or movements easier. ... For example, a robbery took place between 7 and 8 pm in a store equipped with a DVR system.

Finger Print Recognition Process and Parameters by Brindha Ramamoorthy
Introduction In a number of business transactions and access to privileged information, reliable and accurate verification of people is extremely important. Forensic science labs and identification units for criminal investigations routinely use fingerprints. ... The subject area of pattern recognition includes both classification and recognition and belongs to the broader field of machine intelligence-that is, the study of how to make machines learn and reason to make decision, as do humans. ... The preprocessed-modulated signals are then mapped into a decision that equates to recognition...

The History of Video Surveillance – from VCRs to Eyes in the Sky by Lucy P. Roberts
Mention video surveillance and most people think of video cameras mounted in the corners of train stations and banks or private detectives video taping an erring spouse for a messy divorce case. The truth is that the history of video surveillance is much more complex and goes back much farther... Police officers and federal agents may eventually be issued phones with streaming video so that they can immediately send pics of suspects they are tailing back to a database for matching against a face recognition program.