Reply #3: someone was sold a bill of goods [View All]

Face-recognition is one of the very hardest AI tasks. A collossal amount of brain tissue is devoted to storing, comparing and recognizing faces. It's one of the things that humans (and many animals, within their species) do very, very well. No one should have believed that Pentium 4's running a few vector abstraction routines could discern anything from the kind of pictures you get off a 320x200 pixel camera imaging a face from 30 feet away at a 50 degree vertical angle.

The best visual recognition software still can't tell the continuous white line separating your lane and the shoulder from a sunlit tree 30' beyond the shoulder. (more than one test car has gone off the road chasing that kind of artifact.)

I'm not in the least surprised that this stuff failed, and failed spectacularly.