Eye Reflections in Photos Can Reliably Identify Who's Behind the Lens

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By Breanna Draxler
Dec 31, 2013 7:06 PMNov 20, 2019 12:36 AM
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Cheese! Researchers zoom in on a bystander in the study. Credit: R. Jenkins and C. Kerr/PLOS One A person can learn a lot from looking deeply into someone's eyes---perhaps even enough to identify suspects of a crime. Zooming in on a person's cornea in a high-resolution photo can reveal an astounding degree of detail of what was behind the camera, new research shows. The technique could eventually help identify criminal suspects.

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