Face recognition instead of passports: Forget boarding passes. In the future, our faces will be all we need to board a plane. Finland's national airline Finnair and airport operator Finavia are testing the use of a technology recognitionperson to speed up check-in at the airport.
"Face recognition is one of the new ones technologies which we are testing in some airports. There is interest in this from the aviation world and elsewhere," Timo Rissanen, Finnair's head of ground in Helsinki, tells ZDNet.
During the duration της δοκιμής τριών εβδομάδων, 1.000 από τους επιβάτες της Finnair προσκαλούνται να κάνουν τα πειραματόζωα στο νέο σύστημα. Με μια εφαρμογή Android, παίρνουν τρεις εικόνες του προσώπου τους, οι οποίες μετατρέπονται σε μη ανιχνεύσιμα βιομετρικά αναγνωριστικά για να αποφύγουν την αποθήκευση των εικόνων από τρίτους και επιλέγουν ένα καθορισμένο γραφείο στο αεροδρόμιο.
A camera οροφής τους αναγνωρίζει στο πλήθος και όλες οι σχετικές λεπτομέρειες εμφανίζονται στην οθόνη του πράκτορα εξυπηρέτησης πελατών όταν ο επιβάτης πλησιάσει στο γραφείο. Ο πράκτορας ελέγχει τα έγγραφά του και επιβεβαιώνει εάν η αναγνώριση προσώπου ήταν επιτυχής.
The test is carried out by the Finnish software company Futurice, using widely available materials, such as a touchscreen PC and a camera, as well as cloud-based software. Futurice does not name the developer of the face recognition algorithm.
Let's say that this technology will not require an airport visitor to scan its face on a device, but scanning will be automatically done by the airport cameras. So the current tests are done directly at the airport, where the environment is more demanding with lighting changes and passengers are on the move.
"We could do face recognition by taking pictures at the airport, asking passengers to go to a security checkpoint and look at a camera," explains Tuğberk Duman, Futurice project manager.
"The challenge is how to offer a comfortable experience for passengers, and not add another awkward process before you get on the plane."
"In practice, we are talking about years of development work. I would say that in about five years it could be possible [to travel without a boarding pass].”