Soon, In China You Will Be Able To Pay With Your Face

Written by: Chaotic Indian

Remember all the sci-fi movies that showed the actors using facial scanners to identity themselves? Now, China has developed something very similar. Researchers at the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, China, have plans for a payment application that uses the user’s face to detect his/her bank account and conduct transactions online. The system has an accuracy of 99.8% and detects the face from over 91 angles. So far,there is a record of over 51 million faces on the database. The software, however,will have to wait until 2015 while it is being developed into an application by the Chinese Academy of Science, China,according to researcher Zhou Xi.

Xi further added that the system could work even with twins, if the person wears make-up or if he/she has put on or lost weight. The system is equipped with enhance learning abilities that it will automatically changes characteristics of the subject, therefore it functions stably and accurately in a dynamic environment as well. He said that there were also means to detect whether the face was that of a real,living person or just a photo.According to the developers, after installing the app on a mobile device, and linking it with a credit card or bank account, it takes one second for the system to accurately identify a payer. The new facial recognition system has so far been tested at border control situations.

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http://thehackernews.com/2014/09/china-develops-facial-recognition.html