"Searching for an Unfriendly Face", system searches for terrorists.

[jody]

Searching for an Unfriendly Face
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As a soldier scans the crowded streets of Baghdad, so do another set of eyes. The second set, located on the soldier's rifle, belongs to a camera system that instantly recognizes the faces of potential threats.

The camera's brain, a two-pound computer system worn on a belt or in a pack, is the first portable video system capable of matching faces with known threats in real time. It's being developed by Frederick-based ACAGI Inc., along with researchers at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, through Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program funding.

"Soldiers have cameras on their rifles or helmets, but that's only half the equation. They don't recognize anything," said ACAGI CEO Peter Spatharis. "If our system sees somebody it knows, it tells you, and it tells others so quick decisions can be made."

ACAGI's Image Acquisition and Exploitation Camera System (IAECS) is loaded with previously taken photos of potential threats. As a soldier's camera pans over faces, the system converts them into digital images and compares them with the stored photos. Rama Chellappa, a professor in the Clark School's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, developed one of the face recognition technologies ACAGI will use. Electrical and computer engineering graduate student Raghuram Gopalan will put Chellappa's technology into the company's system. ACAGI will license this technology from the university.
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If the system really works, we can put the system on every Baghdad corner linked to a .30 caliber Gatling Gun programed to kill every unfriendly face. Collateral damage may be substantial but dubya and his neocons don't worry about such things. :shrug: