Facial recognition is increasingly common, but how does it work?

[Kevin Lancaster]

Facial recognition is increasingly common, but how does it work?

The Trump administration’s efforts to impose new immigration rules drew attention – and legal fire – for its restrictions on the ability of people born in certain majority Muslim countries to enter the U.S. In the frenzy of concern, an obscure piece of the executive orders did not get scrutinized, or even noticed, very much: its expansion of facial recognition systems in major U.S. airports to monitor people leaving the U.S., in hopes of catching people who have overstayed their visas or are wanted in criminal investigations.

 

[Ricard]

And face recognition systems are easily confused with a simple pattern... on a T-Shirt


https://www.theguardian.com/technol...illance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface

 

[rorz0r]

And face recognition systems are easily confused with a simple pattern... on a T-Shirt
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https://www.theguardian.com/technol...illance-clothing-facial-recognition-hyperface

I tried confusing a Samsung S7 by pointing the camera at this. Couldn't get it pick up anything in the pic as a face for more than a split second so I doubt it having any affect on more powerful government backed surveillance etc.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I have a friend for the last 10+ years who I previously worked with for about five years.

Initially it was funny that people would confuse our names. Down to the local lunch joint flipping us around when we weren't together and other newer colleagues confusing us etc.

Initially we thought it was just human behaviour.

Then facial recognition came along and it got really weird. Across the board between Apple iPhoto/Photos through Google Picasa and later Google Photos and others it would get confused between us for recommendations and contacts tagging.

The only similarities we have is having dark hair but even when having beards or not having beards it would still **** it up.

Where it got really interesting is that when he came over to my place one day and my PS4 logged him in on my profile and similarly I can log into his Xbox with my face.

I'm willing to bet in the future with phones and laptops doing similar things it would also work the same.

I can only think that the ratio between our nose and distance between our eyes and other such things are similar or exactly the same.