First Olympics to deploy facial recognition technology
August 8 , 2018 2222 days 907 0
Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympics to use facial recognition technology to increase security around all venues.
For this, games organizers have partnered with Japanese telecommunications and information technology giant NEC to develop the first system of this kind to be implemented at an Olympics games.
The technology takes only 0.3 seconds to match up to face with pre-registered photo, making it world’s fastest such system.