Minority Report apps

'Minority Report' style apps are becoming increasingly more prevalent in todays cell phones. Although there are limits, the concept is there all the same, point your phone at someones face and get instant information on who they are, their social networks, phone number, address etc..

These apps are able to match 3D models of faces captured with the phone's camera to those stored in a database on remote servers. This matching technique, which captures the shape of the face and other distinctive features like the contour of the eyes, the nose, and the chin, is one of the three methodologies for performing facial recognition. See videos below:

TAT augmented ID

Recognizr