Newly developed software for mobile phones could bypass PIN numbers and passwords by recognising the landmarks of your face as you look at the phone’s front-facing camera.
Technology developed at the University of Manchester, and funded by the EU based Mobile Biometrics project, tracks your face in real-time, and is believed to be unrivalled in its speed and accuracy of recognising your facial features.
Unlike typical, more limited types of facial identification that can only give an approximate position and scale of the face, this app can see the exact location of your eyes, nose, mouth and jaw line.
"A mobile phone with a camera on the front captures a video of your face and tracks twenty-two facial features,“ said Dr Phil Tresadern, lead researcher on the project. “This can make face recognition more accurate, and has great potential for novel ways of interacting with your phone.”
Face verification is already being used in devices like laptops, webcams and Xbox 360‘s Kinect, which will automatically log you on to your Xbox Live profile if it identifies your face and body. As for smartphones, Tresadern claims that it’s the first time that a technology this sophisticated has gone mobile.
You can watch a video of the technology being demonstrated on a Nokia N900 below. The University has also made software prototypes for the iPhone 4.
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