|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Apple has been granted a patent for “identity recognition utilising face-associated body characteristics,” which combines facial recognition technology with other body characteristics to identify people even when their faces are not visible to the camera.
Apple’s patent, filed in May 2022 and granted on 26 November 2024, describes a system that associates facial recognition with other body characteristics such as clothing, gait or gesture to recognise certain people.
The system works by linking a gallery of “body croppings” such as torso, arms or legs with their face biometrics, then comparing the data with a live video feed, and proceeds in a stepped approach to identify face, body parts and physical characteristics, which include body shape, skin colour, or the texture or colour of clothing.
The resulting data constitutes a cluster of “bodyprints” which can be assigned a confidence score against a person’s faceprint and other characteristics, with storage periods as brief as 24 hours for certain identifiers like clothing.
The system can recognise people based on their body characteristics, even if they are wearing different clothes, and can re-register their clothes periodically to maintain accurate identification.
“It all appears to add up to a smart camera system that knows a person’s face and walk but re-registers his clothes in the morning so that it is able to recognise him on his way home even if it can’t see his face because it knows his Hawaiian shirt,” Biometric Update reported.
Although the patent is primarily directed to performing identity recognition in a home environment setting, Apple notes that it should not be construed as being limited to this setting.
The technology can be used in various environments, including homes, office buildings, warehouses, parking lots, and public parks. And although Apple doesn’t say so, we shouldn’t be surprised if it turns up in applications in law enforcement, border control, intelligence, access management and event security.
As Biometric Update notes, Apple patents many technologies that it never makes but its interest in a smart AI camera that performs broad identity recognition is understandable given the growing markets for AI and facial authentication.
The above is a summary of the article ‘Apple patent uses FRT with ‘body data’ so cameras can ID people without seeing faces’ published by Biometric Update. Read the full article HERE.
The Expose Urgently Needs Your Help…
Can you please help to keep the lights on with The Expose’s honest, reliable, powerful and truthful journalism?
Your Government & Big Tech organisations
try to silence & shut down The Expose.
So we need your help to ensure
we can continue to bring you the
facts the mainstream refuses to.
The government does not fund us
to publish lies and propaganda on their
behalf like the Mainstream Media.
Instead, we rely solely on your support. So
please support us in our efforts to bring
you honest, reliable, investigative journalism
today. It’s secure, quick and easy.
Please choose your preferred method below to show your support.
Categories: Breaking News, World News
“It all appears to add up to a smart camera system…”
No, it all appears to add up to yet another “patent” to allow global corp to “sue” anyone else who tries to create such a thing.
Trying to identify someone from their face doesn’t work, anymore than fingerprints did, yet you think looking at their shirt will?
Facial “recognition” just says “these two photos are of the same person with x% certainty”. It can’t find a person from one photo plus the billions of government surveillance images such as passport photos because there are millions of “hits” in the billions. How many different combinations of “your eyes are such and such a distance apart” and “your mouth is so wide” do you think there are amongst billions of people? Answer = as few as there are “different” fingerprint patterns. All of this is just another weapon to be used against the people, used by the fascists to say things like “such and such was seen at such a place by cameras and ‘identified’ using facial recognition”.
Sure it will be reliable, you can trust in it.
[shrug] I binned all of my I / Apple stuff long time ago, only one remained for taking photos only.
On the other hand I would need a very user friendly Linux. Anyone any suggestions please?
[…] Source: https://expose-news.com/2024/11/29/body-parts-to-identify-people/ […]