After some initial panic and a few hours of further study on website development courtesy of Lynda.com, my website is starting to come together, chalking this one as another successful week.
This week the lectures had us looking at new technology that would benefit the field of cultural heritage (and our lecturers continual attempts at poking the bear- ASIO…seriously he won’t be at class one day because a couple black vans have double-bagged him and carted him over to the Ben Chifley Building for a …. discussion about the true purpose of redaction).
We looked at facial recognition technology with several different facial recognition systems considered, all being able to match a face with a database of faces to find its owner including facial detection where a computer scans an image and finds the basic features of a face within.
If technology is going to keep growing in use and advances as it has (and will) then people just need to understand that early attempts of large-scale facial recognition (such as projects undertaken by Google and Facebook to link every face on its system with a name) will not always produce correct results and may even get it very wrong. Looking to more dedicated professional, commercial grade facial recognition systems, often incorporate retinal detection, thermal imagery and other features of the person to confirm a match.
The future is here; it is used in airports and casinos daily to target “persons of interest” and with advances in camera and digitising technology the accuracy is improving at a rapid rate.
