With all the recent hubbub about patents, it’s only fitting the Mountain View giant is in the news as it recently achieved a big goal. Google recently won a face-to-unlock patent which is likely to allow multiple users share one “computing device”. In theory, it works in a simple way too.
1) November, 2011
Google's Galaxy Nexus is released with Android OS 4.0, featuring the new Face Unlock functionality.
2) July, 2012
Half-implemented solution for multiple profiles is found in the Google code of Android 4.1 (with the feature disabled).
http://phandroid.com/2012/07/31/code...on-to-android/
3) September, 2012
Google won a patent on the face-to-unlock functionality,
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My requirement is to implement Face Recognition for authenticating the user. When I made research online, I came across JavaCV as a possible library.
But I am also curious to know how face unlock works in Icecream Sandwich if any api's are available for developers?
A Y.
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As much as I love Android, I’ve always felt the face unlock feature that was introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich is more of a gimmick than anything. While it’s cool to show off to non-Android users, it isn’t practical and can be bypassed rather easily if one were to try.
I use Face Unlock and my pin works when my face doesnt, but it doesnt work when I go to improve facial recognition.
Thoughts?
I am currently work on face recognition in android. I spent reasonable time on internet and I found FaceDetector.Face class in Android.
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