Law enforcement officials have commended plans to install face recognition on body-worn police cameras that could directly check against warrant records in the cloud.Lieutenant Dan Zehnder of the Las Vegas Police Department told Businessweek in a cover story that he one day imagines himself patrolling with a body camera streaming back to headquarters.The footage gets “real-time analysis, and then in my earpiece there is, 'Hey, that guy you just passed 20 feet ago has an outstanding warrant,'” he told the magazine.However, experts told Motherboard in a follow-up piece that the technology isn't necessarily ready.”Facial recognition will require enough pixel resolution to be effective (to get good recognition results the image needs to contain about 50 pixels between the eyes),” he wrote. “To run facial recognition algorithms in real time will require substantial processing power and an on-camera database (which will require frequent updating). Those elements work against the battery life needs.”There are also privacy concerns, and Oregon and Baltimore have passed rules prohibiting the use of facial recognition to analyse recordings obtained through the use of body worn cameras.

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