Face recognition by Bees


	Face recognition by Bees

adosuzano

12-11-2006 5:37 PM

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I liked the picture of honey bees looking for terrorists...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ff8920b5-f1b0-444b-a087-a2599efe1a2c/C2F97752-3C4D-4491-8700-6D6A75336455/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510" href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510" style="font-size: 11px;">www.technovelgy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510"><FONT face="Arial%2C%20Helvetica%2C%20sans-serif">
      Honey Bees Can Recognize You!</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510"><FONT size="2" face="Arial%2C%20Helvetica%2C%20sans-serif">Common honey bees can be trained to recognize individual people, according to a paper published by Dr. Adrian Dyer in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510"><FONT size="2" face="Arial%2C%20Helvetica%2C%20sans-serif">The training consisted of showing the bees a series of black-and-white pictures of human faces. The bees got tasty or sour rewards, depending on their performance. The face series is exactly the same one used by psychologists to test human memory.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510"><FONT size="2" face="Arial%2C%20Helvetica%2C%20sans-serif">How do bees do it? Bee brains are just one-twenty thousandth the size of a human brain. The experiment implies that there is a simpler solution to the problem of <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=237%23Face">face recognition</A> than has been discovered so far by <A href="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Technology-Article.asp?ArtNum=10">biometric security</A> researchers.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=510"><FONT size="2" face="Arial%2C%20Helvetica%2C%20sans-serif">I'm getting this mental picture of a swarm of friendly, well-trained honey bees humming through an airport terminal, looking for known terrorists. And they even have a way to incapacitate their prey! On the other hand, since stinging kills the bee, you'd be losing highly trained assets...
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