Sentence examples for recognition database from inspiring English sources
That lawsuit was filed by Jennifer Lynch, senior staff attorney at the EFF, who says that the FBI's facial recognition database is hardly the only one.
A committee of MPs has condemned police for continuing to upload custody photographs, including of people never charged, to a face recognition database, despite a high court judgement that ruled the practice was unlawful.
Civil liberty groups point out there is no statutory basis for the creation of a national number plate recognition database, under which data about drivers' movements is retained for at least two years.
The FBI's own statistics suggest that one out of every seven searches of its facial recognition database fails to turn up a correct match, meaning the software occasionally produces 50 "potential" matches who are all "innocent", the report said.
"I believe that we have a fundamental right to privacy, and that means people should have the ability to choose whether or not they'll be enrolled in a commercial facial recognition database," he said.
Stephen Moyer, secretary of the Maryland department of public safety and correctional services, which operates the state's facial recognition database, defended police use of the software, saying in a statement: "Maryland law enforcement agencies make use of all legally available technology to aggressively pursue all criminals".
Proponents of facial recognition databases cite the ability to catch both criminals and terrorists through CCTV cameras and image databases, as Stammer was.
Multiple attempts have been made to set up facial recognition databases in the past, both in the US and the UK, causing rows over privacy and ethics.
The reason state governments currently keep detailed facial recognition databases from driver's licenses, said Lynch, is to stymie identity theft and other crimes.
The experimental results on six face recognition databases and two object recognition databases demonstrate that the proposed methods outperform the competitors used in the experiments.
The method is evaluated on three widely used face recognition databases: AR, FERET and LFW, with the very popular LBP operator and some of its extensions.
