Face Scan Technology Gets a Lift

Wired News reported this morning that twenty-two year old identical twins Michael and Alex Bronstein from Israel have developed a new 3D face scan system that can distinguish twins such as themselves. It is a computer system that uses algorithms to measure distances between sample points on the face.

The system works so well that their professor, Ron Kimmel of the Technion Institute in Haifa, gave them a perfect score on the project.

It is a possibility that this new system could be used in the war against terrorism. According to the twins, “The system could be employed at airports or border crossings where a 3-D security camera could scan passengers’ faces and compare them with a database of three-dimensional pictures of suspected criminals or terrorists.”

However, it was also reported that cosmetic surgery could trick the system but it would have to be a very good job.