The body of alleged Boston suspectsTamerlan Tsarnaev is at a funeral home at Massachusetts. But the funeraldirector says he can't find a cemetery willing to bury Tsarnaev.

 

I think a lot of people don't understandand it's an emotional problem obviously but after it settles down and peoplethink about it, they do know we have to bury somebody. That's what this countrydoes. At this point, any outcome would be better than nothing. We do have tobury the person regardless what he did as I said earlier. This country willbury the dead. Funeral directors had done this for years, they continued to doit. And there aren’t too many options, when there’s no problem, it’s very easywith the cemetery, but this is a big problem, but somebody has to step in and say,look at it, we’re going to have to do something here. And we have to. I wouldgo as far as I can go with this.

There are some concerns that possibleprotest like these at the cemetery where the body would be buried. In this kindof thing has come up in the past. Lee Harvey Oswald is buried in the Dallasarea, the same city where he assassinated President John Kennedy. And afterOklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed, his ashes were claimed andscattered in an unknown place. The governor of Massachusetts says Tsarnaev’sfamily should be the ones to decide what happens to his body.

 

Technology can play a big role in trackingcriminal or terrorism suspects. Tom Foreman looks at how this works and howit’s improving.

When the FBI released these photos duringthe search for the Boston suspects. There was a hope that computers might helpas they do on shows like CSI, comparing facial feature with existing date andcoming up with a name. But even though, pictures of both brothers were inpublic data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and cameup empty. The government has been working on facial identifications softwaresince the 1960s.and companies like Facebook and Apple use similar technology totag people in photos. But security analysts widely admit this technology is notgood enough to spot a suspect in a crowd. At Carnegie Melon, Mario Savvidesruns the CyLab Biometric Center.

 

While the toughest problem is the lowresolution, when you look at images collected from standard CCTV footage. Thefaces are way too small.

 

His team is developing next generationsoftware to change poor in partial images into much clearer pictures. They arecreating programs that can reliably match images of to their true identities,despite low light, movement, odd positions.

 

Off-angle is a big challenge. How do youmatch an off-angle image that's say 50 degrees, 60 degrees, 45 degreesoff-angle to a face that’s just a frontal sort of, you know, passport-typephoto.

 

They're even transforming flat picturesinto 3D. Look at what their lab did with a single photo of me. In less than anhour it was turned into series of images showing how I might look from abovefrom the left from the right. Savvides believes such programs can and willsubstantially improve the reliability of facial recognition and lead police tosuspects much faster.

 

And ultimately, hopefully save a life.Because that's our aim, that's our goal, that's everything we do here.

 

For now the FBI is installing its latestversion of facial identification software to work with security cameras coastto coast. That's part of billion dollar program called next generationidentification. Still, in Boston, it wasn't technology, but human investigatorswho triumphed. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.