Easy Check in with Facial Recognition
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Airlines use this biometric technology as a boarding option. The equipment scans travelers’ faces and matches them with photos stored in border control agency databases. These can be photos from passports visas or other travel documents.
Here’s how it works, travelers first scan themselves and then their passports at self-service then proceed to check-in their backs with a scanner.
Benefits for the company
This technology allows for creating a seamless travel experience that’s faster and safer.
Feasability
Medium
Type of expertise/ AI domain
Image Recognition and Classification
In the summer of 2019, Delta introduced facial recognition in Atlanta Airport terminal as well as in Minneapolis, Detroit and other airports that are 49 more gates equipped with facial recognition software travelers seem to like the new boarding option. Delta surveyed customers at Atlantic terminal and discovered for instance that 70% of them found the biometric boarding experience appealing and 72% favored it over the traditional one.