Discover Magazine continues with another interesting story about some of the tech behind Knight Rider. Previously they talked about the reality of 3D printing, and now it's about face recognition.
In Knight Rider, our resident crime fighters rely pretty heavily on KITT's ability to find people. He accesses a government database -- usually the DMV -- and then connects to various surveillance cameras in the area (Knight Rider crooks do tend to like Vegas casinos). The ability to access closed-circuit cameras aside, what's really amazing here is KITT's ability to digitally match photos to a moving image. For modern law enforcement and software search companies, that's something of a holy grail...
Read: Knight Rider: Face Recognition
[Thanks Sue for the find!]
