Facial-recognition software examines daguerreotype bought for $27 (World Net Daily)
Facial recognition expert Robert Schmitt has produced a video in which he analyzes a daguerreotype that may be the earliest photographic image taken of Abraham Lincoln against well-known images of the 16th president.
The daguerreotype, identified only as a "Portrait of a Young Man," was obtained in 1977 by collector Albert Kaplan, who purchased the image for $27 from among a group of 100 being sold by an art gallery on 57th Street in New York City.
The exercise described in the article is very different than the type of identification we usually discuss here, but it is fascinating nonetheless. Video and many more photos at the link.
