Face recognition technology has become a common thing nowadays as it has now reached even that smartphone you are currently holding in your hand. This technology is a revolutionary one and apart from residing in your smartphone does a lot of work for government agencies as far as identification and surveillance is concerned. Face recognition technology involves the comparison of two photos clicked in well-lit environment.

But now, Computer scientists Saquib Sarfraz and Rainer Stiefelhagen from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, have taken this technology to another new level. Using this technology, now you can identify faces even in the dark using a person’s thermal signature. The system analyzes dozens of images of a person’s face and then compares these to dozens of images taken in the daylight using a computer program.

The technology still needs a bit of refining because the thermal image of a person can change or fluctuate based on weather conditions or on the level of physical activity the person is involved in (thermal image of a person leaving a gym after a strenuous workout will be different from one that was taken in normal strain free environment).

But whenever this refining is done, this advancement in technology will surely take the law enforcement agencies ahead in the field of identification and surveillance.

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Author:Technology Blog