有哪些自动识别技术 时尚双语:日本发明购烟者年龄自动识别装置

时尚双语:日本发明购烟者年龄自动识别装置  

日本打算为全国57万台香菸自动售卖机安装新监控系统，可观测购买者脸上皱纹、鱼尾纹和皮肤松弛度，以此界定买菸者是否达到法定年龄。
Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles
crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country's 570
000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage
a pany has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.
By having the customer look into a digital camera attached to the machine
Fujitaka Co's system will pare facial characteristics
such as wrinkles surrounding the eyes
bone structure and skin sags
to the facial data of over 100
000 people
Hajime Yamamoto
a pany spokesman said.
"With face recognition
so long as you've got some change and you are an adult
you can buy cigarettes like before. The problem of minors borrowing (identification) cards to purchase cigarettes could be avoided as well
" Yamamoto said.
Japan's finance ministry has already given permission to an age-identifying smart card called "taspo" and a system that can read the age from driving licenses.
It has yet to approve the facial identification method due to concerns about its accuracy.
Yamamoto said the system could correctly identify about 90 percent of the users
with the remaining 10 percent sent to a "grey zone" for "minors that look older
and baby-faced adults
" where they would be asked to insert their driving license.
Underage smoking has been on a decline in Japan
but a health ministry survey in 2004 showed 13 percent of boys and 4 percent of girls in the third year of high school -- those aged 17 to 18 -- smoked every day.