Google is reported to have filed
a ‘facial’ password patent that takes interacting with a smartphone to
another level altogether. Typing in or tracing a code to unlock a
smartphone is apparently not good enough. Well, we knew that already
when the company introduced Face Unlock via Ice Cream Sandwich.
Not content with leaving facial recognition by AI at the jittery stage it is at now, Google is said to be testing out a password feature which will, if it actually comes to that cringe-inducing stage, have people pulling faces at their smartphones. BBC News has dug out a patent filed by Google which backs the story. The technology is expected to recognize gestures that can be executed ‘within the confines of a human face,’ according to the document.
Going by the details in the patent filed, sticking a tongue out, smiling, wrinkling the nose or forehead, raising an eyebrow and so on are facial password options people may be able to use in order to unlock their handsets. The system will supposedly be crafted to not merely recognize a sole image of the face users make at it. The front-facing camera and the Android phone using such intelligence will be able to recognize the correct facial password by comparing a series of video frames of the face gesture being pulled.
Google indirectly acknowledges that this may not be a perfect facial password technique by talking about other options, in the document. One of the more interesting bits is about a laser-integrating 3D rangefinder. From what we’ve understood of it, the system may be able to identify people’s faces in 3D and hence skirt the insecurity of not being able to tell a real face from the picture of one.
Well, we’ll bet on one segment of people Google facial passwords may not exactly take off with. Can’t picture most celebrities daring to use this ‘security feature’ when there’s the danger of the paparazzi snapping up their ‘faces.’
SOURCE : http://www.mobiletor.com/2013/06/07/google-facial-password-pull-a-face-at-your-phone-to-unlock-it/
Not content with leaving facial recognition by AI at the jittery stage it is at now, Google is said to be testing out a password feature which will, if it actually comes to that cringe-inducing stage, have people pulling faces at their smartphones. BBC News has dug out a patent filed by Google which backs the story. The technology is expected to recognize gestures that can be executed ‘within the confines of a human face,’ according to the document.
Going by the details in the patent filed, sticking a tongue out, smiling, wrinkling the nose or forehead, raising an eyebrow and so on are facial password options people may be able to use in order to unlock their handsets. The system will supposedly be crafted to not merely recognize a sole image of the face users make at it. The front-facing camera and the Android phone using such intelligence will be able to recognize the correct facial password by comparing a series of video frames of the face gesture being pulled.
Google indirectly acknowledges that this may not be a perfect facial password technique by talking about other options, in the document. One of the more interesting bits is about a laser-integrating 3D rangefinder. From what we’ve understood of it, the system may be able to identify people’s faces in 3D and hence skirt the insecurity of not being able to tell a real face from the picture of one.
Well, we’ll bet on one segment of people Google facial passwords may not exactly take off with. Can’t picture most celebrities daring to use this ‘security feature’ when there’s the danger of the paparazzi snapping up their ‘faces.’
SOURCE : http://www.mobiletor.com/2013/06/07/google-facial-password-pull-a-face-at-your-phone-to-unlock-it/
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