India building world’s biggest face recognition system
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WASHINGTON: India is trying to build the world’s biggest facial recognition system to immediately detect a suspect, says an official announcement released to the international media.
The proposed database the Automated Facial Recognition System, aims to “modernise … information gathering, criminal identification, verification and its dissemination” across the country.
India has asked IT companies across the world to send their proposals to the National Crime Record Bureau in New Delhi.
India hopes that the project would enable law enforcement agencies in its 29 states and seven union territories to access a single, centralised database.
A detailed 172-page document published by the bureau says that the system would match images from India’s growing network of CCTV cameras against a database of mug-shots of criminals, passport photos and images collected by various government agencies.
The document says that the new facial recognition platform “can play a very vital role in improving outcomes” when it comes to identifying criminals, missing persons and bodies. It will also help police forces “detect crime patterns” and aid in crime prevention, it adds.
According to a survey conducted in 2018, the crime rate in India is high, particularly in large urban centres.
As of 2016, Delhi had the highest cognizable crime rate of 974.9 (per 100,000 persons) and Uttar Pradesh had the highest incidence of crime based on percentage of share.
In 2016, there were 709.1 offences per 100,000 people in 19 big cities, compared to the national average of 379.3.
Published in Dawn, October 20th, 2019
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Oct 20, 2019 08:39am
Totally unnecessary... Modi's face is easily recognized.
Gordon D. Walker
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Oct 20, 2019 08:53am
Very Impressed with Dawn.This news is not there in TOI.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:54am
Good step.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:59am
Entire world should a centralised databse, to track and identify terrorists.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:06am
What about BJP's face..?!
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Oct 20, 2019 09:20am
India certainly a super power when it comes to IT.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:39am
Great !!
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Oct 20, 2019 09:41am
Sad, unnecessary expense, poor are starving??
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Oct 20, 2019 09:55am
@Himmat, many are starving because of the crime in the society. The honest ones don't have to worry.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:00am
@Himmat, we need to recognize those who need the food and those who siphon off
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Oct 20, 2019 10:01am
Modi always few step ahead..!!
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Oct 20, 2019 10:02am
Great,more jobs for the unemployed IT graduates.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:07am
Need of the hour.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:20am
@Himmat, Grow up
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Oct 20, 2019 10:22am
This is yet another scheme to target the Muslim minority community. Because once the system is in place most of the crimes would have evidence & can be traced to the person, location.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:29am
India is gonna be world leader in technologies!
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Oct 20, 2019 10:31am
Why we Indians and Pakistanis love to reinvest the wheel rather than learing from successful countries how they tackled fundamental human issues. Isn’t it just like making more jails to stop crime？ Feed and educate the poor so that he/she choose not to commit crimes.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:42am
Modi and the terrorist RSS will use this to target India’s minorities.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:45am
This is for crime detection and the main reason is to catch the illegal immigrants
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Oct 20, 2019 10:51am
I hope this new system helps captures Modi.
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Oct 20, 2019 10:54am
Welcome steps. It's good initiative to track criminals easily. Govt should complete the initiative before it's term.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:00am
It help to find terrorist and Intruders.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:01am
Well done India.We are proud of you.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:03am
Excellent step to reduce crimes.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:03am
Best to install at port of entry, such as airports.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:13am
@Himmat, really man, again!!!!
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Oct 20, 2019 11:15am
If successful, it will be a big boost to the security. Keep it up, India!
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Oct 20, 2019 11:16am
@Himmat, India thinks of the future, takes cogniance of changing situations and plans accordingly. That's beyond your thinking.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:17am
@Himmat, same old “starving” statement whenever a country tries to achieve something.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:19am
@Himmat, Do you know how to use punctuations ?
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Oct 20, 2019 11:23am
@Himmat, To get rid of criminals is the biggest achievements.Some way it helps the poor indirectly.
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Oct 20, 2019 11:31am
Pakistan's argue its waste, donot do, millions are dieing and stuff...
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Oct 20, 2019 11:44am
nice
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Oct 20, 2019 11:46am
The crime rates would reduce drastically as the criminals will be identified easily and quickly
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Oct 20, 2019 11:52am
Good decision. It's actually a necessity.
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Oct 20, 2019 12:03pm
Chinese have already accomplished this 5 years ago!
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Oct 20, 2019 12:10pm
@Himmat, read properly. It is about India, not Pakistan
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Oct 20, 2019 12:11pm
All criminals anti social elements will be behind bars it is Modi
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Oct 20, 2019 12:35pm
Crime may reduce if they focus to reduce rich-poor gap instead.
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Oct 20, 2019 12:37pm
And what about people dying and sleeping on streets?
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Oct 20, 2019 12:41pm
It shows their skills in technology. Chandrayan was another big step. Let us appreciate the fact.
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Oct 20, 2019 12:44pm
Will it stop crime rate ? I doubt.
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Oct 20, 2019 12:50pm
Another way to protect the wealth of the rich at the expense of the poor.
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Oct 20, 2019 12:50pm
Our office attendence is already using face recognition in nagpur. What's new
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Oct 20, 2019 01:30pm
@Arif Alvi, crime affects poor more than the rich!
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Oct 20, 2019 01:45pm
This is the start of a true superpower
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Oct 20, 2019 01:53pm
Definitely it helps lot. But Police training and equipping them with latest high gadgets will make the difference.
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Oct 20, 2019 02:05pm
We already use it, nothing new. Even some african countries have this.
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Oct 20, 2019 02:22pm
@Himmat, The poor have always starved and will continue to starve. Nature favours the survival of the fittest and the richest. The poor, weak and incompetent will be filtered out according to the theory of natural selection.
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Oct 20, 2019 02:24pm
Congress and Dmk will Oppose This project, Because this project will affect their Business..
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Oct 20, 2019 02:34pm
@Daddy Cool, It is important to punish the criminal.
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Oct 20, 2019 02:46pm
So deep state is a real phenomenon in India after all ... Now, no one will be safe even in toilet as the authorities would taking his pictures to fill up the database. I guess it's called persons of interest ! Controlling public personal life and voilating privacy in the name of Security is biggest challenge we are facing these days .
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Oct 20, 2019 02:53pm
Superpower in the making
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Oct 20, 2019 03:15pm
@Alih, How abt Pakistan ?
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Oct 20, 2019 03:27pm
@AB, fighting with economic crisis till.
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Oct 20, 2019 03:47pm
@AJ, It doesnt work, now a days most crimes are over speeding, drunken driving, drunken assault etc, none of which are related to poverty.
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Oct 20, 2019 03:56pm
@Arif Alvi
"Another way to protect the wealth of the rich at the expense of the poor"
You are a genius!!!!
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Oct 20, 2019 04:19pm
@Himmat, It is for improving the conditions of poor by arresting crimes. Rich can always employ big securities for their safety.
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Oct 20, 2019 04:33pm
@Himmat, Who is starving? Here even in small cities we don't get people to do basic labour even after paying handsomely. Starving people doesn't do crime. Those who don't have skill to earn & don't want to do labour work either, resorts to crime
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Oct 20, 2019 04:34pm
@Himmat, There are poor people in the western countries as well. Would they stop building modern transport, motorways and bridges?
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Oct 20, 2019 04:52pm
@harry, Too true, people have no idea about going forward.
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Oct 20, 2019 04:59pm
@Alih, This system is introducing in India and we have nobody in the street.
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Oct 20, 2019 05:07pm
@Chinpaksaddique,
No no, this is not the face detection feature of your smart phone camera
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Oct 20, 2019 05:10pm
@AJ, dont lecture us
manage your economy first
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Oct 20, 2019 05:33pm
India needs facial recognition.
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Oct 20, 2019 05:42pm
Another evil plan of trying to create problems in the world. No one trust India, no one will cooperate.
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Oct 20, 2019 05:45pm
@akramlodhi, Chanrayan plopped and subarmanyan got lost in space. Don't waste money on projects that are beyond your capability. Just feed the poor.
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Oct 20, 2019 06:19pm
Need to recognize hungry face first to feed before any recognition technology!
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Oct 20, 2019 06:25pm
Modi is trying his best to make India safest country in the world.
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Oct 20, 2019 07:00pm
@Ragu, how about the goons of RSS...and its leaders...
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Oct 20, 2019 07:33pm
@Jawab do, well said.
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Oct 20, 2019 07:34pm
@harry, No you got hungry, and starving people!
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Oct 20, 2019 07:55pm
@Chinpaksaddique, Its great others have it but that doesn't mean any other should not work to acquire that technology.
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Oct 20, 2019 07:59pm
Advanced civilization indeed.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:22pm
Step is good, but the way it has been advertised means it will go 1:99 way.1 for project 99 in BJP pocket.
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Oct 20, 2019 08:48pm
India should recognize its fascist face first.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:21pm
India building world’s biggest face recognition system to sort out terrorists from even the most pixelated and blurred of images. This shows Indians are slowly but steadily becoming intelligent.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:27pm
More control over us all...
Gordon D. Walker
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Oct 20, 2019 10:05pm
Trying to catch people who are defecating in the open
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Oct 20, 2019 10:11pm
@Daddy Cool, "Will it stop crime rate ? I doubt."
Already nervous?
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Oct 20, 2019 11:15pm
Beside this, India needs to build DNA record system too. It is very important. It would help reduce criminal solving case to a great extent.
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Oct 21, 2019 12:28am
Nothing to fear for law abiding. No more false cases or false witnesses.
Great initiative.
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Oct 21, 2019 02:13am
I think Modi can be caught with this technology
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Oct 21, 2019 02:44am
Great,that is a good way to fight crime. Country’s progress is all inclusive for rich and poor, but that does not mean good investments in security, rule of law, industrialization ,infrastructure improvement etc should slowed down for any reason.
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Oct 21, 2019 02:48am
its sad. best paying slot games should,t do this
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Oct 21, 2019 03:27am
@manjeet kocchar, Yes along with Modi
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Oct 21, 2019 06:26am
@Chinpaksaddique, "We already use it, nothing new. Even some african countries have this"
News to me. Please point to the examples of where we use facial recognition - in Punjab for instance.
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Oct 21, 2019 08:31am
India has the right brain power to do this.
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Oct 21, 2019 09:40am
To ensure the Safety of its Citizens should be the Number 1 duty of any government. Bravo India!
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Oct 21, 2019 09:58am
I hope this will also help India in identifying RSS goons!
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Oct 21, 2019 10:32am
@Ali, well said!
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Oct 21, 2019 12:07pm
A honest and Corruption free govt can take such steps. Love my India.
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Oct 21, 2019 12:08pm
@Sameer Patel, face recognition in office in sanitized conditions and against a known set of people is very very different from this initiative. First and foremost is the extent of data to process ...And potentially in real time. It's a scale that your office cannot match. Along with that consider the complexity of matching with multiple viewing angles, variety of distances, environmental distortions etc.
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Oct 21, 2019 01:34pm
When the government introduced Ration card , many said this is discrimination. When they introduced Aadhaar Card with biometrics that said it is to spy on. When they introduced Income Tax card they said it is to penalize people.
Everytime some new project was introduced they said why not spend it to alleviate poverty instead.
When Banks were computerized they said one computer will take away a dozen human jobs, but today Baking sector is biggest employer. So what they are doing is again revolutionary. Pls go ahead.
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Oct 21, 2019 03:06pm
@Kashmiri, No not Modi but it will detect you from far and wide!!
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Oct 21, 2019 03:27pm
@Alih, you can join them. Welcome
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Oct 21, 2019 03:55pm
@Gordon D. Walker, "More control over us all..."
well said
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Oct 21, 2019 04:19pm
@Himmat, then ask them go out and find work
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Oct 21, 2019 05:23pm
@Anonymouseee, Indian muslims are not a minority. There are 200 million of them.
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Oct 21, 2019 05:48pm
It is another news we heard about $2500 car of the future from India, also $100 laptop made in India this another coming attraction.
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Oct 21, 2019 06:37pm
India is organizing itself with latest tech. Congrats!
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Oct 21, 2019 10:16pm
If technology can be implemented, it will be game changer for India's security. Otherwise, It is very hard to control population what India has.
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Oct 21, 2019 10:21pm
@saksci, Yes, they all happened!
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