Capturing quality facial images is important, particularly in businesses that are monitoring places like cash registers, entrances, and teller lines. The Illustra 600 camera line has the ability to detect a face and increase the bit rate around it, without cropping out important background images.
Facial recognition and video based biometrics continue to be a hot topic with security professionals. While shows like CSI, Law & Order and 24 make it seem that technologies exist that can pick a terrorist out of a crowd in Times Square or spot a criminal the moment he steps foot on the street, the reality is that we're not quite there...yet.