CIA to capture iris recognition at a distance The U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency is developing technology that will be able
to identify people from their iris - even while they are moving
at a distance. Andrew Kirby, senior physical scientist at CIA's
Intelligence Technology and Innovation Centre told a Centre for
Strategic and International Studies forum on biometrics, held in
Washington D.C. this week, that the Agency was also trying to
improve facial recognition technology which can be notoriously
inaccurate. Differences in simple factors like lighting and
expression can impede identification of someone using current
facial recognition technology, said Kirby. "Those differences
are so significant that my own picture taken in two different
places at two different times is actually more difficult to
match than it would be to match me with someone in this
audience," he told the forum. Kirby said his program, which was
created two years ago, has set a goal of improving face
recognition technology "by a facto