Spy camera lets stores know customers' age, gender
AFP via Yahoo! News. Wed Nov 2,10:51 AM ET
...Yamaha Motor has unveiled a camera system that recognizes if a person is a man or woman and puts them into one of five age groups.
"We think this system is suited to marketing," said Makoto Yoshida, Yamaha Motor's advanced system research division supervisor.
"This could be used at entrances and gates to some facilities or set up at eye-catching spots to profile those who entered the places or stared at them," Yoshida said Wednesday.
Yamaha designed the system by building up a computer database of 10,000 people's faces.
It said the system gets it right on gender 88 percent of the time -- about the same accuracy rate as the human eye -- and 77 percent of the time for age....more....
