US Army base tests facial recognition, AI for threat detection, perimeter monitoring

The U.S. Army is testing a commercial, off-the-shelf AI security system at its Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) in Kentucky. A release issued by Joint Munitions Command, Public and Congressional Affairs says the system is “a real-time modular physical threat detection solution using artificial intelligence and deep neural learning computer vision to modernize existing electronic security systems”.

The U.S. Army has previously contracted Idemia NSS for computer vision and facial recognition tech, but the release does not specify which machine …

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