ICS Facial Recognition

Parawood

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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

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

tjk629

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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.
 

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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
 

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

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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.
 

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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. :p
 
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