Macau Casinos Try Out Face Recognition System
25 June 2005
Macau’s casinos are hoping to implement a new system to keep cheaters and problem gamblers out. The new system, which is designed by Vodatel Systems, using Viisage Technology, would recognize faces that matched photographs of known cheaters. Getting the database of faces poses a unique challenge, though. While problem gamblers and gambling addicts may provide photos voluntarily, it would be much more complicated to get a database of cheaters.
A similar system in the United States includes a database of photographs taken at 170 casinos. The database used in the United includes photographs, profiles, and reasons why they are undesirable gamblers. The Macau system, which would cost about $25,000 for each one of the casinos, depending on the number of entrances guarded, would be an even more technologically advanced system.
The Macau Casinos would lay off some staff to defray the costs of the new system, but the system would require staff to operate. The system works via a computer, which alerts casino security guards, shows them the picture, and allows the casino’s staff to determine whether they want to escort the undesirable player out of the casino.
The three companies operating Macau’s casinos will be testing the system. There is a possibility that China, which has laws against gambling by civil servants, would supply a database for the casinos to ban, but operators of the casinos are skeptical as to whether the Chinese government would want to release pictures.
Source: Authorized Online Casinos News Staff
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