Say hello to the FBI’s facial recognition systemNot only criminals, but also Civilian images with non criminal records,
The Next Generation Identification (NGI) is a new system developed by FBI, which features the facial recognition system, will help the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in investigations in criminal cases. The NGI entails complete build up of the FACIAL features a person which will then make the task of hunting them down easy for the enforcement agencies. The project which started its first phase, 4 years ago, took over one billion dollars of US tax payers money in development, is expected to have as many as 52 million faces to its database by the end of 2014.
Not only criminals, but also Civilian images with non criminal records,
The NGI or FBI’s new facial recognition system’s database will be capable of processing 55,000 direct photo enrollments daily and of conducting tens of thousands of searches every day. In addition to 46 million criminal images NGI will also include 4.3 million civilian images to its database. The NGI database will therefore contain images that will of both Criminal and Non-Criminal nature. For instance if you apply for a job that requires your fingerprints, biometric scan or some sort of background check, you may need to submit a photo. This photograph submitted by you will ultimately end up being added up to FBI’s facial recognition database. Its not just a Facial recognition Database, The controversial Interstate Photo System (IPS), has been labeled as a ineffective tool by few experts from the industry. The IPS feature which provides an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities consists of everything from tattoos to scars to a person’s irises. However, as of now, its success rate is limited to 85%. As of now it returns a list of 50 suspects for every given face, Another reason for this low success rate may be that most surveillance cameras have pretty low resolutions. Since the NSA mass surveillance program leaks, people are becoming more concerned about their privacy, especially the US citizens and rights activists, and now with the FBI’s Facial recognition system this will only worsen the scenario.
