Math Algorithm Used to Find Missing Persons
Lord Lucan and a pensioner in Australia have been matched as “the same individual” by a facial recognition expert who unmasked the Skripal poisoners and Jamal Khashoggi’s killers.
Professor Hassan Ugail believes his world-leading AI photo analysis technology may have cracked Britain’s most infamous murder mystery as a matter of “science and mathematical fact”.
Professor Ugail Professor Hassan Ugail is a mathematician and a computer scientist. He is currently working as a Professor of Visual Computing at the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Bradford. Professor Ugail is the first Maldivian to obtain a PhD in mathematics. He compared three pictures of the pensioner to four old pictures of the vanished peer.
His facial recognition technology, developed over 15 years and trained using millions of facial images, provides “very, very detailed” analysis of a picture that “goes far deeper than what the human eye can see”. The results were nothing short of extraordinary.
“According to the computer algorithm, based on thousands of experiments, these pictures belong to the same individual or someone who looks extremely like them - like identical twins,” Ugail said. “This is science and mathematical fact. You can’t cheat the algorithm.”The computer scientist, based at the University of Bradford, has made global headlines for his work identifying some of the world’s most wanted men.
In 2018, he helped the investigative website Bellingcat unmask the two Russian agents responsible for poisoning the former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury. He has also identified three suspects linked to the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and helped to uncover an alleged Nazi war criminal last year.
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