About Face

Studio 360

Peter Belhumeur is a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He’s at the forefront of developing computer systems that can recognize faces – a technology that’s of great interest to the U.S. military. Belhumeur explains to Kurt why the gold standard of facial recognition is still a long way off.

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