The edges of individual eyebrow hairs, which are visible on a normal photo like this one, are lost when two photos are merged together Jurgen Falchle / Alamy
Suspiciously smooth eyebrows could be a giveaway for criminals who try to evade artificial intelligence-powered border crossings by using passports with doctored images.
²¹²Ô»åÌý at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology say the increased use of automatic face recognition at border crossings means it is often an AI, rather than a person, that checks whether a traveller’s face matches the identity documents they carry.
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