Facial recognition technology moving toward identifying almost anyone

[unhappycamper]

http://triblive.com/news/allegheny/3904286-74/technology-face-center

Facial 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.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Some of that

is to do with ears/eye line. The answer is to wear ear muffs amongst other disguising features.

[bananas]

3. I want google glasses that like groucho glasses

best of both worlds!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_glasses

[Politicalboi]

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]

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]

5. Wear shades

Walk, don't run. and never forget the importance of not being seen.