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Cell Phones Learn to Recognize Their Owners' Faces
An anonymous reader writes "Oki Electric this week began marketing a technology that inexpensively adds face recognition to camera-equipped cell phones. Oki's 'Face Sensing Engine' middleware decodes facial images within 280 milliseconds on a 100 MHz ARM9 processor, and can restrict access to mobile devices by recognizing their owners. Its purpose is to safeguard sensitive personal data -- such as email addresses and phone numbers -- in the event of loss or theft of their devices. The technology works by locating and mapping key facial features -- such as eyes, eyebrows, and mouth -- and adapts to changing facial conditions such as winking and smiling, according to Oki."
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This could have a serious downside for serial killers. Just image the movie Scream if their telephone required facial recognition? It may sound like a good idea but such things often have unforseen problems like ruining storylines to "B" horror films.
my evil Twin gets hold of it ?
...if you're Michael Jackson.
In other news, muggers to start taking photos of their victims.
Seriously, I wonder if this can be fooled by a picture. Although it'd still provide some security if you just lost your phone somewhere...
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Face recognition? I think that's the last thing most people would want - It would be the high-school-blind-date-gone-wrong scenario. Millions would get their new "face recognition" phone in the mail...Open it up, and it takes one look at you and scrolls across the screen "Oh..wow..um yeah, I think that I just wanna be friends... you're a really nice guy though." Nothing like being shut down by a Motorola, especially the one with the nice ass (charger base).
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Wouldn't it be nice if phones were so cheap that after a year or two of use you wouldn't mind tossing and picking up a new one for a few dollars?
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I see someone taking a picture of someone, stealing their cellphone, and holding up the picture in front of it for face recognition.
"'Yrch!' said Legolas, falling into his own tongue."
Yep, instead of losing a finger or getting your face pushed into a scanner (Solid Snake style) you get tortured for *hours* until you're willing to giveup not just your password but the whereabouts of the safe, your wife and children and those military secrets you never told anyone about. Good plan.
How we know is more important than what we know.
"Attention, Ugly, you have voicemail"
Table-ized A.I.
The last thing I'd want to see after frying my face in a flash-fire would be:
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"I'm gonna beat you so bad, even your cellphone won't recognize you!"
I'm right-handed and I've got more freckles on the right side of my face - if, for whatever reason, I hold the phone to the left side of my face does the phone still work?
So, ladies and gentlemen, be honest: how many times has it happened to you that you drag yourself out of bed, look at the thing in the mirror and say: "I don't know who you are, but I'll wash you anyway"?
;)
Come on, after a weeks hard work even friends have asked me in the first moment who I am...
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I had the same problem, but I solved it. I added extra things on my schedule the potential thief would be sure to find...
.357 magnum arrives in mail - decide which gun i should sell (if only they made gun racks that could hold 25 guns instead of 24!)
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- speak at the academy about my personal experience of the stopping power of armor-piercing vs. hollow point. Bring a few guns for the demo.
- Building inspector arrives - remember to disable the booby traps near the garage
- Feed the man-eating lion in the basement. Secure door so he doesn't get out again.
- Tell whacky Dave across the street that he can't stay up all night practicing for sniper school. It's not funny when he draws a bead on me at 3 am when I go to the bathroom.
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