, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine.
The fact that facial recognition has penetrated the summer camp market should tell you that the tech is truly ubiquitous. But today we're going to think a bit more about what AI can do with a picture of your face, because the power of facial recognition is not just skin deep., which adds a new layer to the standard facial-analysis playbook: facial temperature.
There are numerous molecular clocks, such as telomere length, that not only correlate with calendar age but are. Testing telomere length typically requires a blood sample — and remains costly. But we can use other sources to estimate age; how about a photo? The first algorithm is pretty straightforward. Researchers collected 2811 images, all of Han Chinese individuals ranging in age from 20 to 90 years, and reconstructed a 3D facial map from those.
And this is where things start to get interesting. Because sure, the visible part of your face can change depending on makeup, expression, plastic surgery, and the like. But the temperature? That's harder to fake. But guessing your age is not really the interesting part of thermal imaging of the face. It's guessing — or, rather, predicting — the state of your metabolism. All these study participants had extensive metabolic testing performed, as well as detailed analysis of their lifestyle behaviors. And facial images could be used to predict those factors.
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