Facial Biometrics System Capable of Creating a Facial 'DNA'

ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2009) — Research into techniques of facial biometrics, carried out by scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), has resulted in a system that is able to recognize the facial "DNA" of every individual by determining his/her most noteworthy facial traits, with a of 95% rate of precision.
Recognition techniques based on facial features, known as facial biometrics, is usually based on the search for those traits which make one face different from another. The research carried out by this team, in contrast, approaches the issue from a slightly different point of view.
"The difference between our work and the majority of the others that are found in this field is the idea of individualized models," explains one of the study's authors, mathematician David Delgado Gomez from the UC3M Statistics Department. "Our objective," he continued, "is to create a model for each person which highlights the most distinguishing features of each face, as a sort of facial 'DNA'."