The arrest rate of offenders sharply improves from the photograph of the driver's license by improving the performance of face authentication technology

With the new face authentication technology introduced by New York State in 2016, more than 4,000 criminals who stealed personal information are being arrested and the remarkable achievement has been achieved.

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The New York State Automobile Authority (DMV) has introduced face recognition technology that checks face photos of driver's licenses against registration databases in 2010 in order to detect criminal activities such as driving during the expiration of license. In the United States, a driver's license is issued for each province, so a person who received discontinuance of driver's license or license cancellation in a state obtains a driver's license in another state using another photo It is said that it does not stand up. There are also many criminals who make fraudulent ID cards by using other people 's face photographs, and in order to detect these criminals, the face photograph database of the DMV' s driver 's license is investigated It is utilized in.


For this face recognition technology of DMV, a large-scale update in which the number of measurement points doubled from 64 to 128 in January 2016 was implemented. It is possible to identify the features of the face such as scratches by overlaying the color and reversing the color to monochrome, and it is also possible to cope with changes in hair style, presence of glasses and changes in face due to aging . With this large update, the crime rate cleared rapidly, 21,000 potential crime cases were discovered from January 2016 to July 31, 2017, and a remarkable achievement of arresting and arresting over 4000 people It is said to have raised.

More than 30 people were caught criminal acts even after June 2017. As a recent example, a furniture carrier that failed to steal customer's personal information and get a driver's license moved to another state I acquired a driver's license under the name of the customer, borrowed a rental car, and even withdrew 50,000 dollars (about 5.5 million yen) from the customer's bank account, and using social security with my identity card and stolen identification card She said that there are fraud cases that received benefits twice. According to the Research Institute for Traffic Safety Management (ITSMR), those who have been found to have multiple licenses by face authentication technology will obtain a second license when half of them are suspended or revoked their original licenses It is known that 24% of the total did not have their own valid license.


In New York State there is a simple and clear principle of "one person license", "By using facial recognition technology, we hand over criminals such as fraud, identity theft to the police, and also have risks without effective licenses Drivers can be closed out of New York's roads to increase safety, "Governor Andrew Quumo said.