Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics?

An anonymous reader writes "Forget fingerprints and ID cards, this photo story shows how the latest thing in biometrics is nose scanning! Bath university researchers have claimed that the nose will soon be able to be used as a way of identifying a person. Apparently the 'PhotoFace system captures a 3D image of a person's face by taking several photos lit from different angles to throw shadows on the face and then building a model of facial features. The software determined that there are six main nose shapes: Roman, Greek, Nubian, Hawk, Snub and Turn-up.' Some cool pictures make this worth a click — but what happens if a person breaks their nose?!"

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Article? What article?

[ekgringo]

For the first time ever, scientists at the Slashdot institute have actually managed to produce an article summary that is longer than the article linked, as well as providing new information not available in the article itself! How is this possible?

RTFA before posting the summary

[argent]

Did the submitter read the story?

While able to process images more quickly than conventional biometric identification techniques such as whole face recognition, the system's recognition rates were comparatively low and researchers recommend it as an addition to existing biometrics rather than a replacement.

Re:Before you know it

[Nabbler]

They don't actually map the entire DNA of every person, even the british cops, they use some main markers, and those do actually sometimes double up, plus you can fake or spoil DNA very easily by using someone else's hair or spit or some such.

But I fear the worse too for the future.