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> If you knew these guys, they aren't the kind who would just sit there and look at pictures.

As someone who has been a software developer for quite a long time, this statement makes a big assumption.

A good software developer knows it is often far easier and faster to flip through a couple of hundred photos and process them with your meat-brain rather than write a one-off bit of software to do the matching, even if you start from an existing base like OpenCV or whatever.

> If you knew these guys, they aren't the kind who would just sit there and look at pictures.

That's why I said "Feel free to sprinkle in face detection on the yearbook/facebook photos to make it more engineer-ey."

Having software running doesn't preclude using your brain - first to consider possible heuristics and then to do the types of analysis computers aren't good at. There's a reason mechanical turk exists.