Can Facial Recognition System Be Tricked Using A Picture?

Mashhood Riaz / News Reviews Category / 18th November, 2011 / 1 Comments
Can Facial Recognition System Be Tricked Using A Picture?

Google has worked a lot with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich and also A.K.A. Google`s first release of Android in order to combine the chaos of collectively all the previous releases of the operating system of mobiles along with Honeycomb, 4.0 is considered as the first one which will going to be used on both of the tablets and smartphones.

Many New Features Added To Ice Cream Sandwich

In order to change Ice Cream Sandwich, Aesthetics is not only the single thing Google has also added a number of new features to it along with other apps as well. The things added by Google also include the new style of unlocking the device by just the help of our face, face recognition. But obviously the face is not the best thing which may be used as a key to unlock the smartphone or tablet.

Mystery Regarding Facial Recognition System

A video has been uploaded to SoyaCincau.com which shows that to use face recognition is just a folly nothing else. The link of the video is as follows:

A lot of people are waiting for it after the announcement of Samsung Galaxy Nexus announcement. It may also be possible to trick this device of Ice Cream Sandwich by having a picture of the owner in front of his camera.

Facial Recognition Vs Password

The question with which we are left now is that, is facial recognition beneficial or the previous method of securing things like having a password and pin is superior. If we consider only this video then we will come to know that it is nothing else than a waste. And we are not a bit sure that we should bother to use it or not. As we have not examined it ourselves and don`t know that how it works and how its speed is? It does not seem quicker than to press some virtual buttons present there on the screen.

If facial recognition has not the ability to protect us than we can say that it is not anymore quicker than that of having a password or PIN. We have to think about it a bit and have to see whether it works properly or not and what is the proper reason for using it. The question for you is that:

Will you prefer using face recognition over password or PIN or not?

 

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