Face recognition at airports and termination of passports

Face recognition instead of passports: Forget boarding passes. In the future, our faces will be the only ones we will need to board an airplane. Finland's Finnair Finnish airline and Finavia airport operator are testing the use of face recognition technology to accelerate airport check-in.

"Η αναγνώριση προσώπου είναι μία από τις νέες τεχνολογίες που δοκιμάζουμε σε μερικά αεροδρόμια. Υπάρχει ενδιαφέρον για αυτό από τον κόσμο της αεροπορίας και αλλού", αναφέρει ο Timo Rissanen, επικεφαλής του τμήματος εδάφους της Finnair στο Ελσίνκι, στο ZDNet. Face Recognition

During Over the course of three weeks, 1.000 of Finnair's passengers are invited to experiment with the new system. With an Android app, they take three images of their face, which are turned into untraceable biometric identifiers to avoid the images being stored by third parties, and choose a designated desk at the airport.

A roof camera recognizes them to the crowd and all relevant details appear on the customer service agent screen when the passenger approaches the office. The agent checks his documents and confirms that the face recognition was successful.

The test is carried out by the Finnish software company Futurice, using widely available materials such as a PC with a touch screen and a camera, as well as that exists in the cloud. Futurice does not name the company that developed the facial 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.

"Θα μπορούσαμε να κάνουμε την αναγνώριση προσώπου, παίρνοντας φωτογραφίες στο αεροδρόμιο, ζητώντας από τους επιβάτες να πάνε σε ένα σημείο και να κοιτάξουν μια κάμερα" εξηγεί ο Tuğberk Duman, of Futurice.

"Η πρόκληση είναι πώς να προσφέρουμε μια εμπειρία άνετη για τους επιβάτες, και να μην προσθέσουμε ακόμα μια άβολη διαδικασία πριν φτάσετε στο αεροπλάνο."

"Στην πράξη, μιλάμε για χρόνια αναπτυξιακών εργασιών. Θα έλεγα ότι σε περίπου πέντε χρόνια θα μπορούσε να είναι εφικτό [να ταξιδέψετε χωρίς κάρτα επιβίβασης]".

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