Crowds and Face Rec at 2,110 Mega-Pixels

What's in a face? (North County Times, California)

Perhaps you've received the email photo of the Vancouver Canucks Fan Zone along Georgia Street for Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup just before the riot last June. The 2,110 megapixel photo was taken over a 15-minute time span and is actually 216 photos stitched together.

To the naked eye, it's just a blob of shadow and light of tens of thousands of fans between several blocks of tall buildings. But keep zooming in and you can zero in on individual faces with unbelievable clarity.

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