NYS upgrades its facial recognition software to catch persons of interest
Don't try to get a phony ID at the DMV
People attempting to obtain a New York State driver’s license under false pretenses will have a harder time of it following a recent upgrade of facial recognition software by the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
The software uses algorithms of facial characteristics – such as cheekbones or the distance between eye pupils — to compare driver’s license images with other DMV images.
The DMV’s program has been beefed up to double the number of measurement points (from 64 to 128) mapped to each driver’s photograph, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a release on Monday.