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British Police to Trial Facial Recognition System That Detects Your Mood

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 18 2020, @05:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the mood-ring dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

British police to trial facial recognition system that detects your mood:

A British police force is set to trial a facial recognition system that infers people's moods by analyzing CCTV footage.

Lincolnshire Police will be able to use the system to search the film for certain moods and facial expressions, the London Times reports. It will also allow cops to find people wearing hats and glasses, or carrying bags and umbrellas.

The force has got funding from the Home Office to test the tool in the market town of Gainsborough, but ethical concerns have delayed the pilot's launch.

A police spokesperson told the Times that all the footage will be deleted after 31 days. The force will also carry out a human rights and privacy assessment before the trial gets the green light.

[...] "At the same time as these technologies are being rolled out, large numbers of studies are showing that there is... no substantial evidence that people have this consistent relationship between the emotion that you are feeling and the way that your face looks," AI Now's co-founder Prof Kate Crawford told the BBC late last year.

Could it be it was thrown off because everyone had a stiff upper lip?

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 19 2020, @10:14AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 19 2020, @10:14AM (#1038763) Journal
    It'll be interesting to see if the detection system has some of the issues that can muck up such systems, like scale invariance and the right slight perturbations in an image can massively increase detection. Imagine putting a sticker on someone's backpack or car that is an image of an enraged face. Or wearing a t-shirt with an innocuous image which is slightly tweaked to trigger the system.

  • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday August 21 2020, @02:35AM

    by legont (4179) on Friday August 21 2020, @02:35AM (#1039687)

    One can try to arrange her underwear so it looks like a gun on the scanner and go to the airport to see what happens. My bet it will be 10 years incarceration; if she survives that is. Fooling street cameras will be the same at some point and this point is sooner than most think

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