A new facial recognition tool can help find missing children by rapidly matching the pictures of kids with their biological parents.
The tool could be useful to law enforcement and families in locating missing children, researchers said. A team from the University of Central Florida started the project with more than 10,000 online images of celebrities, politicians and their children.
“We wanted to see whether a machine could answer questions, such as ‘Do children resemble their parents?’ ‘Do children resemble one parent more than another?’ and ‘What parts of the face are more genetically inspired?'” Graduate Student Afshin Dehfghan said.
“As this tool is developed I could see it being used to identify long-time missing children as they mature,” said Ross Wolf, associate professor of criminal justice at UCF.
