The Boston Marathon bombing heightened awareness of face recognition technology. According to many reports, such systems were unable to identify the suspects, despite images being captured at the scene. However, in a trial of face recognition systems conducted by Michigan State University, NEC's state-of-the-art NeoFace technology achieved an almost instant "rank one" match of one suspect, using the same query photos taken at the scene of the incident as those used by the police.
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