Whoah, butter! You are jumping to way too many conclusions here. First of all, what I do involves a whole lot more than ‘facial recognition’. Please stop bandying my name around as a facial recognition expert. It minimizes me to something that puts me in a box and does not do justice to who I am or what I actually do.
Secondly, all of the conjecture about plastic surgeries and the like is unnecessary. He didn’t need it. If you look at ALL the photographs plus the video, nothing has been changed.
Thirdly, the admin would already have known from the gitgo exactly who he was and their first encounter did not just happen lately.
There is a lot more to this, but the direction you are taking is wrong. I just woke up and saw this and I am nowhere near well enough to try and explain all the places this speculation has gone off the rails.
Hardraade called it a ‘snap’ id, It wasn’t. You don’t just snap to an id like that. There are countless other points of verification and they ALL have to match up. He does.
But the rest of it is just wrong. I am sorry, but it is.
Placemarker for reference
Lots of stuff goes into an id apart from face. The important thing about facerec is that it’s just metrics. In theory, you could do it with a ruler and a tape.
It is a small but important part.
My apologies. I knew you’ve got lots of health issues and didn’t want to bother you but wanted to make sure you were pinged so you could correct any misunderstandings. I guess the major point is that you’re sure the guy in the hospital pics is Bin Laden’s son. Did I get that part right?
Somebody noted the earlobes being different than the young picture of Hamza, and that those would require surgery to change. Is that incorrect?