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Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones
An anonymous reader writes "If you have a camera phone, you may soon have to take a picture of yourself before making a call or accessing data stored on the device. A Japanese company has developed face recognition software for camera phones that it says can authenticate users within one second of clicking the shutter. Omron (Japanese) will demonstrate its Okao Vision Face Recognition Sensor at tomorrow's Security Show Japan in Tokyo."
"How did you do it, son? And by that I mean how did you break into Darl McBride's files?"
"I took a picture of a magazine cover and I got access to everything, his phone directory, his notes, pictures, even his personal phone messages from Pariahs Anonymous."
You'd think they'd avoid visible light and use IR or a combo to pull this off, though in IR we can also look different depending which end of the ski run we are on ...
Bullwinkle: "Eeeny meenie, chili beanie, the iPod is about to squeak"
Rocky: "Did it reveal anything Bullwinkle?"
Bullwinkle: "Did it?!? It's my new Linux boxen!"
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What if you are having a 'bad face day'?
Maybe it won't recognize me when I'm wearing my tinfoil hat...
This is great - until you are in a car accident and are bleeding from the face.
"I need to call [insert japanese equivelent of 911]."
"Sorry sir, facial recognition failed."
[Insert slow painful death]
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
...and use someone elses cell phone. All you need to do is lob of their head and carry it around in a sack with you. When you need to make a call, pull out the head and snap a picture; free cell phone minutes.
Or what if you are tammy fey? do you have to put on the same face every day?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Well of course they do, but if I acknowledged that, there wouldn't have been a joke, would there?
is Fist Recognition - to warn their owners of an incoming punch when they engage in obnoxious cellphone abuse in my presence.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Do you need a barcode on your face for it to work?
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Well, they forgot to mention you have to tattoo a barcode on your forehead for this to work...
Now they won't just steal you cell phone.
They have to cut off your face too!
Personally I think the whole idea of password protecting my cell is ridiculous, but I suppose there are some people in sensitive places that need to have their phones protected against thefts and things. Like Paris Hilton.
Of course, authenticating against a stock photo poses certain challenges for Paris. For example, every time she wants to make a call she'll have to whip off her top and make out with a brunette.
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
Forget using this for security. Can I use to this to get the phone to remember girls names for me?
Just take a picture and up comes the girls name or it speaks it. Maybe even better if it reminds me where I know her from. Gone is the embarrassment of not remembering her name, leaving me only the embarrassment of trying to make conversation.
Perhaps they use that technology they have on CSI.
You know the one, where they take a frame from a liquor store's video surveillance camera and blow up a reflection in the suspect's eye so much they can see a fingerprint on the hood of a car two blocks away.
Man, I want some of that technology in my cellphone.
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Here's hoping the software can recognize when there is a piece of duct tape over your mouth
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