Reply to post: There are no shortcuts

Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech

johnrobyclayton

There are no shortcuts

When

They have 10000 different images of every person to be positively identified (scanned image is of this person)

And

They have 10000 different images of every person that they want to negatively identify (scanned image is not of this person)

And

They have 10000 different images of each person they are going to scan and attempt an identification on.

Then

They might have a chance of reliably identifying someone that they have scanned.

It still will not be perfect though.

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