Image Recognition
Although co-appearance technology is already used by authoritarian regimes such as China’s, Vintra seems to be the first company marketing it in the West, industry specialists say. None of the entities that do business with Vintra that were contacted by The Times acknowledged using the co-appearance feature in Vintra’s software package. Vintra’s technology could be used to create “a more basic version” of the Chinese government’s capabilities, he said. But the cameras his department links into —including Ring cameras and those used by businesses — aren’t good enough to match faces, he said. “It requires precise inputs for good outputs.”Jarod Kasner, an assistant chief in Kent, Wash., said his department uses Vintra software.