It turned out Talley was not the perpetrator and his arrest left him with extensive injuries, and led to him losing his job and Talley has now become an example of what can go wrong with facial identification.
Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakes
Facial-recognition algorithms Source: UNSW Newsroom - UNSW Sydney
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After a series of bank robberies that took place in the US in 2014, his estranged ex-wife identified him as the robber in CCTV footage and an FBI facial examiner later backed up her claims and Steve Talley was arrested.
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