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Old Aug 12, 2011, 12:55 pm
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Bungnoid
 
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Originally Posted by LuvAirFrance
As we all know, humans are infallible. Replace a machine with a human if you want to be "mistake free". Right?
Certainly not, but I believe that current state-of-the-art computer recognition systems still fall short of the capabilities of the human brain.

Regardless, my point was that the German report says that ATR does not work. One conclusion--one that many of us favor--is that the scanners should be scrapped. I was just pointing out that another possible conclusion is that ATR be scrapped. As to the effectiveness of the naked scanners without ATR, I don't think that the German report addresses that.
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