The images themeselves aren't that great for identification. However, if they combine it with traditional facial recognition techniques - such as distance betwe

The images themeselves aren't that great for identification. However, if they combine it with traditional facial recognition techniques - such as distance between the eyes (a genetically determined characteristic) - it would (for example) be able to narrow down suspect lists to a few people using DMV photos. Wanted fugitives living under false names that have managed to get a real driver's license are regularly caught these days using this technique. So instead of generating images, this software could simply take a DNA sample and spit out the characteristics the facial recognition software already takes as input. Up comes a list of names and addresses of the handful of people that the DNA can possibly belong to, even if they have never been in a DNA database. The software already has to calculate these things before delivering the facial image, so delivering the characteristics would actually be a subset of the capabilities he has already built. Scary stuff.