Please be informed about the advances before believing in the shoot from the hip comments made in this post. The best and easiest way to do this (albeit a bit d

Please be informed about the advances before believing in the shoot from the hip comments made in this post. The best and easiest way to do this (albeit a bit dated) is the NIST Face Recognition Grand Challenge results (http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frgc.cfm http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frgc.cfm). You'll see the tremendous advances and increase in accuracy in FR achieved recently.