Monday, 10. March 2003

Topic: - on March 10, 2003 at 9:40:57 PM CET

Twins crack face recognition puzzle

Israelis Michael and Alex Bronstein think they have the answer.

The computer whiz-kids -- 22-year-old identical twins almost impossible to tell apart -- have applied a new technology to recognizing faces in a way that may yet revolutionize international security.

"I said it to them as a joke: if you succeed in building a system that can distinguish between the two of you, you'll get (a grade of) 100," said the twins' professor, Ron Kimmel of the Technion Institute in Haifa.

"They succeeded and got 100. They are brilliant."

¬> CNN

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