The revolutionary software, which was originally designed to identify potential terrorists in busy crowds, has already been used to predict the future appearance of celebrity¹ offspring including Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Harper Beckham.

 

Now the creator, Professor Hassan Ugail, head of Bradford University's Centre for Visual Computing², has announced plans for it to be developed into an app available for the general public.

 

It means this innovative³ technology, which works by blending the child's face with that of their parents, could predict the appearance of the next generation decades in advance.

 

Ugail, who claims the software has an 80 percent success rate, will reveal his future plans at this week's meeting of the British Science Association in Bradford.

 

To tackle that issue Ugail said he reversed the process, 'de-ageing' celebrities⁴ including Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, and comparing them with photographs from their childhood. The results, he claims, were 'striking'.

 

Eventually the smartphone app will mean that parents can predict how their children will look right into middle age, presumably with just the click of a button.

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