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Facial Recognition To Be Tested at Airports  http://bit.ly/24mbYVS

New technology detects and tracks you from the second you arrive at the airport until you’re out of the arrivals hall at your destination.

More and more people are travelling by plane, so automating airport security checks makes sense. The use of biometric features is a way to identify people at airports. Biometrics measures biological patterns — such as fingerprints, iris patterns, head shape or gait.

Postdoctoral fellow Raghavendra Ramachandra and his colleagues at NTNU in Gjøvik have developed algorithms to identify faces. 

“When a lot of people gather in one place, queues develop quickly,” says postdoctoral fellow Raghavendra Ramachandra at NTNU’s Biometrics Laboratory in Gjøvik. “Rather than stop every single person at an airport gate, we’ve developed algorithms that recognize people’s faces, based on electronic passports with a photo and ID number,” he says.

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