Applications for Facial Recognition Increase as Technology Matures

From shopping centers and airports to concert venues and mobile phones, facial recognition technology can now be used in all of them due to advances in technology. Countries including China and the United States are developing, testing and using facial recognition technology. At the Los Angeles International Airport, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, has been trying out several security devices, including a facial recognition technology that takes a picture of the passenger and compares it to the passport picture just before he or she goes through airport security. "We're always looking at technology, processes, even doctrine changes on how to better our security at an airport," said Steve Karoly, acting assistant administrator with the TSA's Office of Requirements and Capabilities Analysis. If any one of the technologies being tested is implemented in the future, it will take two to three years for the TSA to install them in U.S. airports.