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Facial recognition technology moving toward identifying almost anyone
http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/3904286-74/technology-face-centerFacial recognition technology moving toward identifying almost anyone
By Andrew Conte
Published: Monday, May 20, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Updated 10 hours ago
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But when the FBI released blurry, off-angle images of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, researchers with Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Biometrics Center began trying to bring them into focus.
In a real-time experiment, the scientists digitally mapped the face of Suspect 2, turned it toward the camera and enhanced it so it could be matched against a database. The researchers did not know how well they had done until authorities identified the suspect as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger, surviving brother and a student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
I was like, Holy shish kabobs!' Marios Savvides, director of the CMU Cylab, told the Tribune-Review. It's not exactly him, but it's also not a random face. It does fit him.
The technology, to be sure, remains in its infancy. Yet cyber experts believe it's only a matter of years and research dollars until computers can identify almost anyone instantly. Computers then could use electronic data to immediately construct an intimate dossier about the person, much of it from available information online that many people put out there themselves.
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Facial recognition technology moving toward identifying almost anyone (Original Post)
unhappycamper
May 2013
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)1. Some of that
is to do with ears/eye line. The answer is to wear ear muffs amongst other disguising features.
bananas
(27,509 posts)3. I want google glasses that like groucho glasses
best of both worlds!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_glasses
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)2. Maybe this can be solved
Sure looks like Poppy to me. Lets hope this technology will be made public before this bastard dies.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)4. So computers had nothing to do with IDing Tsarnaev.
This is one of those things that has been "a few years away" for years and years.
pscot
(21,024 posts)5. Wear shades
Walk, don't run. and never forget the importance of not being seen.