title: Plastic surgery and the biometric e-passport: implications for facial recognition.
abstract: This correspondence comments on the challenges of plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery on the facial recognition algorithms employed by biometric passports. The limitations of facial recognition technology in patients who have undergone facial plastic surgery are also discussed. Finally, the advice of the UK HM passport office to people who undergo facial surgery is reported.
authors.affiliation: Imperial College London , London , UK.
authors.forename: Rele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ologunde
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D056667:Biometric Identification / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005145:Face / Q000601:surgery; D000066499:Facial Recognition; D006801:Humans; D057233:Radio Frequency Identification Device / Q000379:methods*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures
keywords: Biometric passport; facial recognition; facial surgery