Facial recognition can get better at spotting people from a distance, new paper says

Surveillance cameras with facial recognition are covering more of our cities. But the systems are facing a problem: they are relatively shortsighted.

A new study published in Nature looks at how to optimize surveillance cameras for matching face biometrics from a distance.

The facial recognition method is based on deep learning from a dataset that includes the distance of the individuals from the camera, the focal length of the image sensors and the size in pixels of the target …

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