Biometric surveillance firm Tygart has revealed that a facial recognition system was used on live video from surveillance cameras at the European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan.According to Tygart, during the June 2015 event, organizers watched a webpage that could issue an alert if a face in the crowd matched that of an individual on a watch list.Baku2015 was the inaugural European Olympic Committee's First European Games and was attended by 6,000 athletes from over 50 countries over 16 days, with over 600,000 tickets sold.John Waugaman, president of Tygart Technology, the company that deployed the technology, told NextGov in June that using the solution, a match that scores above a certain level of confidence will generate an alert.Sometimes, the vast amount of faces in a highly-populated area can bog down the scanning process, so high-performance computers are available for support on the back-end, said Waugaman, whose customers include the US intelligence community, Pentagon and law enforcement agencies.
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