Peter Belhumeur

Peter Belhumeur has been collaborating with the Smithsonian on an iPhone app for plant identification. It’s based on the same systems he’s developed for facial recognition. During our visit to Belhumeur’s lab, he explained to Kurt how the app works.

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.