[Year 12 IT Apps] Suggestion for a third VCE IT subject ...

Brett Groves groves.brett.g at edumail.vic.gov.au
Fri Nov 12 13:58:21 EST 2010


If read this 
http://pinktentacle.com/2008/06/magazine-photos-fool-age-verification-cameras/ 
you may decide 'detect' is perhaps too a tad too definitive lol

Cheers

Brett

On 12/11/10 12:11, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> I was a tad confused about the same question. There are CCTV systems 
> that will detect users, some are even fancy enough to detect faces 
> that they do not recognise and flag an alert. In a sense, There was a 
> report in The Age recently how police are using biometric information 
> to track crims and I can imagine casinos using this technology to 
> track users. Not sure how reliable it is.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system
>
> I have enjoyed and had a few good laughs at the miss-hits with the 
> free facial recognition software built into iPhoto but will 
> acknowledge the potential when I took the trouble to train the system 
> and get it right. (It correctly identified the faces on a statue of 
> Henry Bolte and a poster of Fredo Frog that I tagged. Curious to see 
> what happens if I bump into them again or if they are in the 
> background of future photos)
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Mark Scott <msc at luther.vic.edu.au 
> <mailto:msc at luther.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
>
>     re MC q3
>     The techs at work laughed and said there is no answer.
>     They said that CCTV does not "detect" only records.
>     One of my students suggested that there is virus protection
>     software that will keep a log of files that been unsucessfully
>     accessed.
>     Does anybody know of such?
>     Mark Scott
>     Luther College
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