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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 08:55

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Bud Frede <fr...@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

> I've seen a number of demos of how good facial recognition is, and I've

	Facial recognition is pretty good - when the set of possible
matches and the population checked are both small, it gets less good pretty
fast at scale. People have similar problems, try a search for 'eyewitness
error'.

> heard of projects to use a person's gait or other characteristics to
> identify them if their face isn't visible.

	Yes gait recognition can be and I think has been used to track an
selected person's progress automatically but I very much doubt it could be
used to identify an individual.

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