A man who was kidnapped as a toddler was reunited with his family after 18 years – when police managed to track him down using face ageing app technology.


Yu Weifang, 21, this month met his parents for the first time since he was a child – all thanks to the FaceApp-style Al technology created by Chinese tech giant Tencent. Similar to the trending face ageing app, police used the technology to predict what the 21-year-old would look like now and matched his features to a database with thousands of people.

The cold-case investigators in south China’s Guangdong Province used the Al technology along with existing facial recognition intelligence to locate the missing man.

After sorting through nearly 100 potential candidates, officers narrowed them down to 21-year-old Weifang – a student school in China’s Guangzhou province.

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