Intel Agencies Seek to Perfect Biometric Recognition from Drones sibsky2016/Shutterstock.com email December 11, 2020 Intelligence and military researchers want to merge facial recognition with other biometric methods to identify people from long distances and steep angles The intelligence community wants to put biometric identification technology on drones but has hit a wall when it comes to the most widely used biometric: facial recognition. Federal programs experimenting with facial recognition technology have found the reliability depends greatly on lighting, camera position and other environmental factors—elements that are almost impossible to control at long range. But improvements in computer vision and techniques that take a subject’s entire body into account are increasing the possibilities.