Article: Motorola, Visionics and Wirehound Provide Real-Time Wireless Facial Recognition Capability on Mobile Phones; Mobile Phone Application Uses Facial Recognition to Help Law Enforcement Officials Identify Criminals On-The-Spot.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Law enforcement officials may one day use their mobile phones to help identify criminals, thanks to an application being demonstrated by Motorola, Inc. , Visionics Corporation , and Wirehound LLC. The companies unveiled facial recognition capabilities on Java(TM) technology-enabled phones from Motorola today during the 2002 JavaOne(SM) Developer Conference in San Francisco's Moscone Center (Motorola Booth #1728).

The application, developed specifically for a law enforcement agency, uses Visionics' FaceIt(R) ARGUS as the delivery platform for facial recognition capabilities and Wirehound's Birddog software on the Motorola i95cl, a Java 2 ...

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