{"id":17895,"date":"2024-12-06T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17895"},"modified":"2024-12-06T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:25:04","slug":"could-facial-recognition-help-find-man-sought-in-united-healthcare-ceos-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17895","title":{"rendered":"Could Facial Recognition Help Find Man Sought in United Healthcare CEO\u2019s Killing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man whom the police are seeking in connection to the brazen killing of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, has passed by numerous surveillance cameras while in Manhattan. Could artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition put a name to the man whose identity has so far eluded the authorities?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A surveillance camera image released by law enforcement. <\/span>New York City Police Department<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The police have released two surveillance camera stills in which the entire face<\/a> of a person the authorities are seeking is visible, including one in which he is smiling. Both images are grainy, and his face is captured from a sharply downward angle.<\/p>\n

Anil Jain, an expert on facial recognition technology at the University of Michigan, said the photo in which the man is smiling contains enough detail for a facial recognition system to yield potential results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe challenge will be which face database to search against,\u201d Dr. Jain said. Law enforcement officials could search the F.B.I.\u2019s mug shot database, the drivers\u2019 license databases of New York State and neighboring states, or public photos on the internet using a system such as Clearview AI.<\/p>\n

A facial recognition search would yield a list of people deemed similar looking to the person in the original photo. The police would need to find other evidence to tie a person identified that way to the crime, Dr. Jain said, or run the risk of making a wrongful arrest.<\/p>\n

Other experts disagreed about how useful the images could be for identifying the man.<\/p>\n

Alessandro Acquisti, a technology and policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said that the photos shared with the public would not be enough to uniquely identify the man because they were not full-frontal images. They could, though, help to \u201crestrict the pool of likely suspects,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Giorgi Gobronidze, the chief executive of PimEyes, a face search engine<\/a> that anyone can use to find photos of a person on the internet, was skeptical that the poor-quality images would produce reliable results. A facial recognition system performs best with a high-resolution photo of someone looking directly into a camera.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gobronidze also said that automated facial recognition would only work if the images of the person were in the database being searched.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf the person in the image has little to no online presence,\u201d Mr. Gobronidze said, PimEyes \u201cwon\u2019t be able to find anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A man whom the police are seeking in connection to the brazen killing of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive, has passed by numerous surveillance cameras while in Manhattan. Could artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition put a name to the man whose identity has so far eluded the authorities?A surveillance camera image released by law enforcement. New York City Police DepartmentThe police have released two surveillance camera stills in which the entire face of a person the authorities are seeking is visible, including one in which he is smiling. Both images are grainy, and his face is captured from a sharply downward angle.Anil Jain, an expert on facial recognition technology at the University of Michigan, said the photo in which the man is smiling contains enough detail for a facial recognition system to yield potential results.\u201cThe challenge will be which face database to search against,\u201d Dr. Jain said. Law enforcement officials could search the F.B.I.\u2019s mug shot database, the drivers\u2019 license databases of New York State and neighboring states, or public photos on the internet using a system such as Clearview AI.A facial recognition search would yield a list of people deemed similar looking to the person in the original photo. The police would need to find other evidence to tie a person identified that way to the crime, Dr. Jain said, or run the risk of making a wrongful arrest.Other experts disagreed about how useful the images could be for identifying the man.Alessandro Acquisti, a technology and policy professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said that the photos shared with the public would not be enough to uniquely identify the man because they were not full-frontal images. They could, though, help to \u201crestrict the pool of likely suspects,\u201d he said.Giorgi Gobronidze, the chief executive of PimEyes, a face search engine that anyone can use to find photos of a person on the internet, was skeptical that the poor-quality images would produce reliable results. A facial recognition system performs best with a high-resolution photo of someone looking directly into a camera.Mr. Gobronidze also said that automated facial recognition would only work if the images of the person were in the database being searched.\u201cIf the person in the image has little to no online presence,\u201d Mr. Gobronidze said, PimEyes \u201cwon\u2019t be able to find anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17897,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17898,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17895\/revisions\/17898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}