Why facial recognition tech failed in the Boston bombing manhunt

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Sparks67

Actually, it took the author to page 2, to write this statement in quotes below.
"These were uncontrolled environments," said 3VR's Karahashi. "In case of Boston bombing, you have so much raw footage, and they were processing video from cameras that weren't designed to be capturing faces." There were plenty of megapixel surveillance cameras in the mall, stores, and hotels around Copley Square—"but there [were] also a lot of analog and VGA resolution cameras," Karahashi said."

Jeff

P.S. The US government funds lot of cool technologies that take awhile to mature.

Totally agree with this statement. The fact that there even IS such a thing is a major milestone IMHO.