Facial Recognition at the Statue of Liberty

Facial Recognition at the Statue of Liberty
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (2 January 2014, Documented, , No description)
City	New York
Country
Involved Entities
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Video Synopsis (Briefcam), Axis (Network Cameras), Total Recall (Software), Pivot3 (Software)
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	Briefcam (Dataset), Axis Communications (Dataset), Total Recall (Dataset), Pivot3 (Dataset)
Deployment Type	Biometric Cameras, Criminal investigations, Surveillance
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managed by	U.S National Park Service, U.S Park Police
used by	U.S National Park Service, U.S Park Police
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Information Certainty	0
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Information Certainty: Speculative

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Video Synopsis (Briefcam) Cognitec Face VACS DBScan Axis (Network Cameras) Total Recall (Software) Pivot3 (Software)
Institutions ⠉	Briefcam Ltd Cognitec Systems Axis Communications Total Recall Corporation Pivot3
Datasets	Cognitec (Dataset) Briefcam (Dataset) Axis Communications (Dataset)
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (2 January 2014, Documented, , No description)
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities
Managed by	U.S National Park Service U.S Park Police
Used by	U.S National Park Service U.S Park Police

Location:

City	New York City (NY)
Country ⠉	USA

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Description

A range of surveillance tools appear to be in use near the Statue of Liberty.

After Hurricane Sandy struck Liberty and Ellis Islands in 2012, part of the eight-month restoration project included installing a new surveillance system to help U.S. Park Police (USPP) and the National Park Service (NPS) protect the millions of families who visit each year. The goal was to provide intelligent perimeter security for the islands, complete coverage for the entire interior of the statue, and enhanced coverage of the security screening facilities at the ferry landings in New York and New Jersey. The technology would help park personnel monitor visitor lines, assist ferry operations, and expedite responses to emergencies 1

Total Recall Corporation, a video-centric security technology provider and Axis partner, designed, donated, and installed a cutting-edge security solution that included more than 160 megapixel and HDTV-quality fixed dome and pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) network cameras from Axis controlled by a sophisticated Milestone XProtect® enterprise-class video management system (VMS) running on 11 Pivot3 vSTAC Watch converged storage and compute appliances 1

On one memorable occasion, a distraught woman told park rangers she had been searching for her husband for over two hours. Based on her description of her spouse, security used the cameras to track his whereabouts almost instantaneously and reunite the couple 1