Face Recognising Vending Machines Fooled By Photos In Japan
Remember last year, when we told you that certain cigarette vending machine manufacturers in Japan were going to be adding face recognition technology to their machines in order to verify the purchaser's age?
It seems the system is easily fooled by holding photographs from magazines, as a reporter recently figured out:
When the reporter went to check out the new age-verifying machines after they were introduced in the Osaka area in June, he soon discovered that the machines equipped with face-recognition cameras would let him buy cigarettes when he held up a 15-centimeter (6-in) wide magazine photo of a man who looked to be in his 50s.The reporter also went to Kobe, where different face recognition hardware is being used. There, he bought cigarettes using an 8-centimeter (3-in) wide magazine photo of a female celebrity in her 30s. He also reportedly tried to use a 3-centimeter (1-in) wide photo, but the machines rejected it.
Fujitaka, one of the purveyors of the new technology, has already commented saying they're working on a software update that will be able to distinguish real human people from photographs to close this loophole.
Let's see how long *that* takes before someone finds a work around...
雑誌の写真で買える...顔認証自販機に抜け穴 (1/3ページ) [SANSPO]
[via: Pink Tentacle]
Den Den Boy
Posted to In the World on 30 June 2008
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I still think something like using your bank card (here in germany) or even a state ID card (like in california) makes the best sense.
Sometimes the way technology works in Japan doesn't make much sense :) To get all the TV channels there takes about a lot of effort.