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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Smile! Air Force Wants to Track You Forever With a Single Camera Click

Don’t bother with the iris scanner or the fingerprinting machine. Leave the satellite-enabled locators andtell-tale scents back on the base, military manhunters. If an Air Force plan works out as planned, all you’ll need to track your prey is a single camera, snapping a few seconds of footage from far, far away.

Huntsville, Alabama’s Photon-X, Inc. recently received an Air Force contract to develop such a camera. With one snap, the company claims, its sensor can build a three-dimensional image of a person’s face: the cornerstone of a distinctive “bio-signature” that can be used to track that person anywhere. With a few frames more, the device can capture that face’s unique facial muscle motions, and turn those movements into a “behaviormetric” profile that’s even more accurate.

More Here: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/smile-air-force-wants-to-track-you-forever-with-a-single-camera-click/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Blog+-+Danger+Room%29

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