Better Face-Recognition Software

Computers outperform humans at recognizing faces in recent tests. For scientists and engineers involved with face-recognition technology, the recently released results of the Face Recognition Grand Challenge have been a quiet triumph. The match up of face-recognition algorithms showed that machine recognition of human individuals has improved tenfold since 2002 and a hundredfold since 1995. Indeed, the best face-recognition algorithms now perform more accurately than most humans can manage. The necessary in error rate was due in large measure to the development of high-resolution still-images and 3-D face-recognition algorithms. "For the FRVT 2006 and the ICE 2006, sets of high-resolution face images, 3-D face scans, and iris images were collected of the same people." 3-D face recognition has come into its own in the last few years because 3-D sensors for face recognition have become available only recently."