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3D Face Imaging in 40 Milliseconds

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whole-new-meaning-to-snapshot dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Computer scientists at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, have developed a new face recognition software which can produce an exact 3D image of a face within 40 milliseconds. A pattern of light is projected on your face, creating a 2D image, from which an accurate 3D representation is generated. This technology should speed airport check-ins, but it could also be used in banks or for checking ID cards as it allows full identification in less than one second."

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  1. go4t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    if you move a table of eall legitimate previously thought fellow travellers? Long term survival

  2. Two hours ago I submitted a story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Washington Post reports that German scientists (working under even more severe government restrictions than in the United States) have found a way to coax testicular cells from mice into the equivalent of embryonic stem cells. If this works in human males as well, this would bypass the pitfalls that occur when the body rejects donated transplant tissue and organs coming from others (adult or fetal). The article mentions that the search is underway for a similar feature in females. The article appears at the URL

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/03/24/AR2006032401721.html

    You heard it here first.