Pune: Police use facial recognition software for surveillance of Home Quarantine persons

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Pune, March 27, 2020: Pune Police has developed facial Recognition software system for surveillance over ‘Home Quarantine’ persons in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad cities.

It is helpful to all police personnel to avoid direct contact with these persons and spread of Coronavirus infection. Its major features will be as follows :

Police Commissioner Dr K Venkatesham said that the selfie-app based face recognition and location tracking system enables a passenger/person to register himself/herself with their details like Name, Phone Number, Selfie and other relevant information.

The person uploads his/her registration details using the app, following which a verification is made against the existing master list of persons/passengers.

Once the registration is approved, the selfie app enables a passenger to upload attendance in the form of a selfie with location tagging in realtime.

This information is then sent to a private cloud based server which runs a real time Artificial Intelligence based Face Recognition and Location Tracking algorithm and compares against the registered information.

When the face data and location data match against the database, a positive attendance / update is made into a dashboard.

If the face or location data do not match against the database, a real time alert is triggered for the authorities to take action for noncompliance of home quarantine rules . Frequency of such an authentication and tracking mechanism can be tuned as per the requirement.