Originally posted by Lynn S. M.:
Originally posted by Lynn S. M.:
Originally posted by fierysicilian:
One thing that I have argued is that now that they have that "faces" software that they use to recognize criminal's faces when they change their hairstyle and such, wouldn't someone have used that to connect Clark w/Superman?
There was a fanfic where Jimmy did just that. I wish I could remember the title or the author
Sex, Lies, and Photographs
cheers,
Lynn At the moment facial recognition software doesn't really work much better than human powers of recognition, less well on some common features, with a beard, with glasses, etc.. The figures I've seen that I actually believe are about a 95% chance of successful recognition (e.g. spotting the person you actually want) with a 1% incidence of false positives (spotting someone else who looks sufficiently like the person to give an erroneous result. That's under controlled conditions, of course, probably not so good if the lighting isn't so good or the person isn't looking directly at the camera. Or is wearing glasses etc...
Ignoring the real world requirement, 95% / 99% still sounds pretty good, but what it means is that in a crowd of say 10000 people, one of them the one you're looking for, you will identify about a hundred people as your suspect - of whom one MAY be the right person but the rest are not. In a city of say a million people you end up with 10,000 suspects.
And since nobody is denying that Clark and Superman look a lot alike it really doesn't help much anyway. All of the tricks he's used to "prove" that he isn't Superman will still be just as effective. Of course someone could have the bad manners to jab him with a pin or something, but that's always been a risk he runs.
Having aaid that, one of the reasons why I never wrote a
Las Vegas crossover (despite Dean Caine playing the casino owner for a while) was that the casino security surveillance team in that show used facial recognition software in every episode - and it appeared to work a LOT better than it does in real life, say 99.9% accuracy with no false positives except one episode where a lot of people were wearing plastic masks designed to give the same facial recognition results.
