Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.

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The company, which is actually a visual recognition company not an app company, has developed sophisticated facial recognition technology that analyzes features of the face and recognizes faces to a high level of accuracy.

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