Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich looks pretty good. It’s got a bunch of new features, like an updated look, improved notifications and an awesome browser. Oh, and anyone with a picture of your face might be able to unlock your phone. Uh, guys? More »
9 to 5 Mac reports that Apple has included facial recognition software and APIs into iOS 5. While Apple doesn’t plan on making an app of their own, developers can jump on it and turn out Kinect-ish apps after tinkering with it.
Facebook appears to have added a shutterbug’s dream feature: face detection technology. As soon as you upload a picture, the feature realises that there are humans in it and preselects their faces. You just add the poor souls’ names. More »
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Japan’s Teatime is an adult game developer known for adding webcam functions like face tracking to their games. But their latest innovation known as “hand tracking”? It’s a new era, friends. Also, no, I’m not free to video chat. More »
The next time you see someone with a make up style that puts David Bowie to shame, don’t laugh too much. He or she may be cleverly fooling face recognition and detection systems with a crazy or asymmetrical design. More »
This is awkward. It appears that HP’s new webcams, which have facial-tracking software, can’t recognise black faces, as evidenced in this video. More »
iPhoto’s face detection isn’t perfect, but we can’t blame the software for spotting a face in this unbaked batch of cookies.
In testing iPhoto for a full review (coming soon), I’ve plowed through more than 30,000 photos using over 40 identified faces, mostly human. Here’s how iPhoto’s face detection and recognition works—and doesn’t work:
BKIS, a Vietnamese security centre, recently demonstrated that face-recognition security programs found in Toshiba, Asus and Lenovo laptops can be bypassed with a special photo.
