Face-recognition technology is crossing a new threshold: identifying people even after they’ve had plastic surgery.
Current algorithms that take a “holistic” approach to analyzing faces are extraordinarily accurate, but they can be thrown off by facelifts, new noses, and bee-stung lips. But working on the theory that small regions of the face would be less altered by surgery than overall facial proportions, researchers at the University of Notre Dame created a system that begins by breaking faces down into constituent parts….
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Gary Rosen is the editor of Review and the former managing editor of Commentary magazine. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of "American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding" and the editor of "The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq."