In the future, visitors to Japan will no longer be greeted by immigration officers.

Instead, Japan’s government is deploying facial recognition technology to speed passport control.

Officials launched a real-world test of the technology today (Monday) at Narita Airport near Tokyo.

The device was first tested in 2012 but implementation was delayed due to a low degree of accuracy.

Japan’s government hopes to have the facial recognition technology in place to deal with a surge of visitors expected for the 2020 Olympics.