Today, it’s at least one-third of casinos and growing. They’re purchasing it and sales over the last three years have gone up.”Īllison said 10 years ago, less than 10% of casinos deployed facial-recognition technology. In the last three years, the technology has jumped by leaps and bounds and casinos are not as skeptical as they were. Now that we have camera technology, the software behind facial recognition is more accurate. “It’s been around for 15 years or so, probably longer, and the product has never worked for casinos because of various factors, such as lighting, plus the camera technology wasn’t as good,” Allison said.
He leads the Face Recognition Vendor Tests, which constitute the world’s largest independent public tests of face-recognition algorithms and provides findings of their research.
The conference session will be headed by Patrick Grother, a scientist at the National Institute of Standards in Technology that’s responsible for biometric-algorithm evaluation and biometric-performance-testing standardization.