Intel core i5 will be used for facial recognition in jjoo tokyo 2020

Intel announced this week that NEC Facial Recognition facial recognition technology will power a tool called NeoFace at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The company said it will use a Core i5 processor (the generation was not mentioned) to scan the faces of some 300, 000 people at the stadium once games start in July 2020.

Intel Core i5 processors to drive Olympic Games facial recognition technology

NeoFace will be used to "identify more than 300, 000 people at the games, including athletes, volunteers, the media and other staff members for venue and accommodation entry points , " Intel said. The objective is "to prevent the risks related to identification fraud", while "reducing the long waiting times for identification controls".

People on Intel's list have to be photographed to get ID cards. Using facial recognition to identify those people instead of manually checking those badges is, in most cases, a matter of convenience.

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Other uses of facial recognition can be much more invasive. Companies have demonstrated billboards that personalize their appearance based on the people who see them, for example, and activists have opposed the use of facial recognition by the United States government.

In its announcement, Intel did not say how it plans to secure the data processed by the tool or what will happen to that data when the Olympics end. However, Intel assure that it will have no role in the operation of the facial recognition tool and that this corresponds to NEC.

Intel's contributions to the Olympic Games will not be limited to NeoFace. The company will also use Intel True VR to offer immersive versions of various events.

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