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Wednesday, January 09, 2002

http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0108/1016.html

How Computers Recognize Faces.
By Alan Zeichick

Most of us take our ability to quickly identify the face of a friend or relative for granted. But this skill involves a series of very complicated operations, which is why computers have difficulty performing this seemingly simple, menial task. Yet computers increasingly are being used to perform two key pattern-recognition tasks: positive identification of individuals for granting access to privileged resources, and rapid recognition of suspects in a crowd for law enforcement agencies....

 


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