World’s biggest face recognition system in India

Face recognition the system is a technology used to detect, identify and verify people from a photo or a video source. There are many ways to identify but the general procedure involves the matching of some facial expressions from a given database and hence recognize the person. It compares certain features with a given database.  It is also described as a Biometric Artificial Intelligence based application that can uniquely identify a person by analyzing patterns based on the person's facial textures and shape. It was initially a form of technology application but has recently seen a hike in our day to day lives such as mobile applications using the face detection and recognition system as their security locks. It is typically used as access control in security systems and can be compared to biometrics such as fingerprint sensors and, eye iris recognition and more. Recently, it has also become popular as a commercial identification and marketing tools. Its other application includes human-computer interaction, video surveillance, automatic indexing of images, and video database, among others.

The world’s biggest face recognition system is arriving in India.

As exciting as it sounds it is much more interesting than this. The National Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) is close to getting installed in India, with the tender submission date being just 20 days away. This is an effort in the direction of modernizing the police force, as information gathering, criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organization and units across the country, as said by NCRB in its 172-page long document. The technology will benefit the home ministry, state police and the NCRB.

It will be a vigorous system to identify the criminals, missing children/persons, identifying the dead bodies and unknown traced children/persons all over the nation. A depository of the photographs of all the criminals in the country, to identify the enhanced patterns of the detected crime and their modus operandi will be the key benefit and they will be aiding the crime prevention. It will be helpful for the overall police department across the nation. As told by NCRB, with the help of this software the state police can check the suspect with the hotlist of criminals and also will be able to differentiate between the victim and the convict. It will aid and accelerate the justice process of our country thereby elevating the law of the nation.

Currently the leading face recognition software are: Amazon Rekognition, Face Recognition and Face Detection by Lambda labs, Microsoft Face API, Google Cloud Vision, and IBM Watson's Visual Recognition, among others. In China, start-ups like Megvii and AI unicorns like SenseTime, CloudWalk, and Yitu have been made facial recognition commonplace in China. However, in India, Delhi police identified over 3000 missing children in just four days during a trial of a facial recognition system.

However, there are chances that technology can be misused. According to one of the nation’s top cyber law expert Pavan Duggal, according to the Information Technology Act, 2000, does not socially deal with the misuse of this technology. “The first causality of the absence of regulator framework for facial recognition technology is people’s right to privacy”, said by Praveen Duggal. “In India there is not even a framework to regulate the storage of facial recognition of data”, he added.

Some of the major technologies’ giants including Amazon and Microsoft also agree that the government doesn’t require to regulate this technology. Microsoft urged the government to regulate them and enact legislation regarding this technology. In his new book titled “Tools and Weapons” Smith said that the tech industry needs to step up higher and do more address to address challenges related to regulation.

Given the potential and strength for the abuse of this acing technology, government across the world needs to start adopting new and powerful laws to regulate this technology in 2019. Amazon has also defended the face recognition. It offers “Rekognition”- a facial recognition tool to recognize and spot the criminals. According to NCRB. The Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) to be implemented that would help in automatic identification and verification of a person from the database such as videos, photos, sketches by comparing selected features from an existing database.

 A facial recognition system is a great investigation enhancer for recognition, verification, and identification of criminals, missing children/people, unidentified dead bodies and unknown traced children/people. It can provide investigating officers with required tools and information and hence elevate the overall development of the country.

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