Episode 518 • • 1:23:33 - 1:26:17
518: Hot Scene
Carnegie Mellon, Facial Recognition and Machine Learning
Researcher Mario Savvides at Carnegie Mellon University demonstrated facial reconstruction technology using machine learning to identify suspects from blurry images. By processing low-resolution photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev against a database of a million faces, the system ranked the actual suspect in the top 20 matches. Skeptics argue the demonstration relies on high-resolution photos that were already publicly available.