Pixel Counting Biometric Comparison of Oswald photos

[Jim Hargrove]

Thanks, Drew. This was obviously a major undertaking and is very interesting.

From what I understand about facial recognition techniques (which actually amounts to little more than looking at graphics from Facebook and other sources supposedly depicting comparison points on human faces) there are often dozens (possibly even scores or hundreds) of different points of measurement made by these computerized or computer-assisted programs.

For example, in declaring that its new facial comparison algorithm is now "as accurate as the human brain," Facebook offers the following graphic:



This SUGGESTS, at least, that Facebook's approach involves far more comparison points and measurements than the five measurements you used in your study, though I don't mean to disparage your work by suggesting it would be possible for you to carry what you have done much farther in your spare time.

I will bring your work to John A's attention, if he isn't aware of it already, and try to help him find a private company that does this type of work so we can have similar comparisons made. (Assuming this won't be cheap, I'll suggest he start slowly, with a limited number of samples at first.) This is interesting....