Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Facial recognition from DNA using face-to-DNA classifiers

  • Dzemila Sero,
  • Arslan Zaidi,
  • Jiarui Li,
  • Julie D. White,
  • Tomás B. González Zarzar,
  • Mary L. Marazita,
  • Seth M. Weinberg,
  • Paul Suetens,
  • Dirk Vandermeulen,
  • Jennifer K. Wagner,
  • Mark D. Shriver,
  • Peter Claes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10617-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Prediction of face from DNA followed by matching to facial images has been proposed for forensic applications. Here, Sero et al. present a different approach that can establish facial identity from DNA without directly predicting the face but is based on classifying given faces by individual DNA-encoded traits.