New Facial Recognition Software Answers Whether Children Resemble Their Parents b4in.org/a4mL A project launched in part to determine if a machine could determine whether children more closely resembled their mothers or fathers could help law enforcement officials locate missing youngsters and reunite people with their biological parents, according to researchers from the University of Central Florida. Graduate Student Afshin Dehghan and colleagues from the UCF Center for Research in Computer Vision have created a facial recognition tool that they claim is capable of quickly matching pictures of children and their parents, the university explained in a statement Thursday. The project, which will be presented next week during the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Columbus, Ohio, started with more than 10,000 online images of famous parents and their offspring, and has blossomed into a tool capable of matching relatives and potentially even identifying photos of missing kids as they grow older. “We wanted to see whether a machine could answer questions, such as ‘Do children resemble their parents?’ ‘Do children resemble one parent more than another?’ and ‘What parts of the face are more genetically inspired?’” Dehghan explained. While these topics are commonly discussed by anthropologists, the UCF team is looking to inspire new technological advances that can objectively analyze and evaluate data without human bias. Ross Wolf, the associate dean in the UCF’s college of health and public affairs, as well as an associate professor of criminal justice and a law enforcement officer for more than two decades, said that the tool could potentially be “used to identify long-time missing children as they mature.” While law enforcement officials already use facial recognition software, those programs lack the ability to identify the same features and characteristics in photos over time. The newly developed program could be capable of doing so. Dehghan’s team is looking to expand their research by analyzing how age, ethnicity and other similar factors can impact the resemblance of facial features, the university noted. More b4in.org/a4mL
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:51:13 +0000
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