Kathmandu, Sept. 9 -- A digital system using computer vision and deep-learning technology is being deployed to help locate people missing after the devastating Bhotekoshi river floods and identify bodies that have proved difficult to recognise.

With hundreds of bodies still awaiting identification, a group is turning to FaceTagr. This artificial intelligence system analyses faces in photographs and videos and compares them with images of missing people. The technology can narrow thousands of possible records to five or ten likely matches, which can then be reviewed by families.

"This means families no longer have to keep going from one place to another searching," Samir Panthi, founder of Nowtrkit, a Houston-based company, told Kantipur...