Improved vision for facial recognition
(World News Science)

Defence scientists have enhanced a facial recognition algorithm, improving the odds of identifying someone in adverse environments such as across a distant carpark and in dark alleys. Sau Yee Yiu and Dmitri Kamenetsky are both members of DST`s biometrics research team. `Biometrics is all about recognising people,` Kamenetsky explains. `We are asking `Is that the same person as this one in our dataset?` While iris and fingerprint biometric data are the most accurate, a comparison of facial characteristics is the most common technique used...