Facial recognition technology being used by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has helped authorities find and arrest an identity theft suspect.The Casa Grande woman was found after walking into an MVD office for a driver's license.The Arizona Department of Transportation's NeoFace software determined her face closely resembled two other ID photos in the database and flagged the images, reported AZFamily.comDetectives with FBI training reviewed the photos the following day, and determined all three images were of Forrest. Investigators said she had been using two stolen identities to get Social Security benefits, Department of Economic Security financial assistance, settlement payments and veterans benefits.Court documents indicate Forrest first obtained an Arizona ID card under a false name in 2008. She obtained another Arizona ID card in her cousin's name in 2012.She was arrested March 1.”This tool helps us find those identity thieves much quicker and be able to pursue those cases much faster,” said ADOT spokesperson Ryan Harding.ADOT has been using NeoFace, a software program developed by NEC Corporation of America, since 2015, Harding said.Like other image recognition software, NeoFace uses a relatively new form of artificial intelligence called “deep learning.””Deep learning is the idea that you can teach a computer to learn a pattern by starting with small, lower-level structures like edges, and then from those small structures, learn more complex patterns,” said Nadav Ben-Haim of Orpix, another image recognition software company

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