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Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology. In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research ...
Movement festival promotes music good causes

Stala Infinite designers Luis Antionio Uribegan, Luis Andres Calderon, and Michael Lapp stand next to their art work which is part of the Camp Detroit art installations displayed near each main stage during the 2013 Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit on Saturday, May 25, 2013. / Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free ...
Man accused of killing his family brought back to Novi

The Novi man suspected of killing his family and fleeing to India in 2008 is to be arraigned on murder charges at 10:30 a.m. Sunday.Lakshminivasa Nerusu arrived at the Novi Police Department on Saturday, ending a ...
Motown Mowdown going on in Detroit thru Sunday

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Mich. train strikes semi carrying load of kayaks

Washtenaw County sheriff's spokesman Derrick Jackson says the semi couldn't cross a one-lane bridge and was backing up over the tracks when the train split it in two. The driver was able to get out of the cab before the ...

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Woman and son hurt in Pontiac apartment blaze

A woman and her son were hurt in a fire in Pontiac this morning.The boy, who is younger than 10, is being treated for smoke inhalation at ...
Murder trial begins for 2 men accused in Pontiac party bus shootings

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Drew Sharp Tigers celebrate 1968 champs the team that cooled a hot city

The 1968 Tigers won the American League pennant and the World Series, and they helped dissipate the lingering fear and animosity of the 1967 Detroit riots. / Ernie Harwell ...
Michigan trooper kills man during traffic stop

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Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology.

In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research scientist, tested three different facial-recognition systems.

By using actual law-enforcement video from the bombing, they found that one of the three systems could provide a "rank one" identification - a match - of suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev.

"The other suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the one ultimately killed in the shootout with police, could not be matched at a sufficiently high rank, partly because he was wearing sunglasses," Jain said. "The younger brother could be identified.

"This study was revealing in that facial recognition technology can successfully handle some cases in which facial images extracted from a video were captured under favorable conditions," he said.

Under controlled conditions, when the face is angled toward the camera and if the lighting is good, this technology can be up to 99 percent accurate. ...