Russia’s intelligence service, FSB, announced last week it will spend 10 million rubles (approximately $350,000) to create software that can identify similar objects or people within images and videos. The project is designed to help recognize potentially dangerous people, objects, and situations in real time.
Today’s technologies in this field are far from perfect, leaving much room for error and providing many opportunities to deceive recognition systems.
Video surveillance companies in Russia currently use imported recognition software, such as that produced by Cognitec, while software companies in Russia adapt or fine-tune existing recognition technologies rather than create their own from scratch.
According to Igor Ashmanov, owner of Ashmanov & Partners, a leading Russian web agency, the 10-million-ruble budget will enable the FSB merely to modify an existing technology for an explicit purpose with narrowly defined functions.
Source: Webplanet.ru, CNnews.ru
