ICS Facial Recognition

[Parawood]

I am very surprised that they went with facial recognition as an unlock mechanism. Don't know if it's possible to read but wouldn't a fingerprint / thumbprint have been a better way to go? Not as easy to bypass. Set a box to press your finger against and tada!

Anyone know if this would be possible?

 

[jwilly216]

The touch screen is not sensitive enough to read the tiny lines on our finger.

 

[tjk629]

The Attrix has a finger print reader. I always thought it was a pretty neat feature. Would be cool if more phones had it, but I guess it's more of a novelty.

 

[jwilly216]

What might work tho- is if u just had to point ur thumb at the camera until it fills a box on the screen. Then it would need an accurate fingerprint recognition software to analyze the picture of the thumb

 

[Dave12308]

Facial unlock is just a novelty. It doesn't work well on my Alienware laptop either.

 

[altspeed]

Its way fickle, light, glasses, even your expression, or letting your beard grow can hose it. Angle especially.

 

[aaf709]

Its way fickle, light, glasses, even your expression, or letting your beard grow can hose it. Angle especially.

You can avoid that problem by having a good picture of your face. Show that and it'll unlock.

Hang on.......


http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...amming-and-photo-unlocking-from-start-to-end/

 

[mark1wat]

I think this is a real cool feature, but as I have used it the last couple of days, I realized it was a little glitchy. The change in lighting, glasses, etc caused it to not unlock.

Today I noticed the "improve face matching" option in the settings. I was able to let it scan me with my sunglasses, safety glasses, and I am going to do it in different lightings also. So far it has worked A LOT better.

 

[altspeed]

Started improvin on facelock 230 today. Glasses veraus sunglasses vs no glasses, ballcap and not, and it is really working much easier/better

 

[bigtex52]

On my nexus I accidentally had it pointing towards the wall when unlocking and it still "saw" me somehow. Not very secure. And before some wise-ass says it, I don't look like the wall.