CNN Erin Burnett OutFront May 1, 2013 23:26:00
Footage, the faces are way too small. >> reporter: his team is developing next generation software to change poor and partial images into much clearer pictures. they're creating programs that can reliably match images of people to their true identities, despite low light, movement, odd positions. >> it is a big challenge. how do you match an image that is 60 degrees, 45 degrees off angle to a face that's just a frontal sort of, you know, passport type photo? >> reporter: they're even transforming flat pictures into 3-d. look at what the lab did with a single photo of me. in less than an hour, ...