The Face Aging Group is a part of the UNCW Institute for Interdisciplinary Identity Sciences (I3S). The Group was formed in 2003 by Dr. Karl Ricanek, Dr. Eric Patterson, and Dr. Midori Albert. The group has received more than $3 Million in research from 2003 – 2009. Since 2009 the I3S institute has received over 1.4 million dollars in funding from research grants Face recognition (FR) research and technologies focus largely on capabilities of computer algorithms to match stored, gallery images to digital images acquired from video sequences or still images for use in security and law enforcement venues. These algorithms try to reverse-engineer the human ability to innately recognize a…