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Re: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Post by aniviacat »

e-topy wrote: post #13
bsimpson wrote: post #12

I know there was extensive testing when face recognition authentication came to smartphones. I wonder how an open source project like this one compares. I suspect there are substantially more false positives/negatives than on a commercially developed version that needs to support everyone to be successful.

Apple's Face ID uses what is essentially a 3D camera, a simple 2D color camera cannot compare to that in terms of accuracy.

AFAIK Pixel phones, including the Pixel 9, only use 2D images for face unlock. So it's definitely possible to reach mainstream quality with conventional cameras.

(Unless you'd argue that the face unlock found on Pixels is not passable either)

Re: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Post by crowcroft »

e-topy wrote: post #13
bsimpson wrote: post #12

I know there was extensive testing when face recognition authentication came to smartphones. I wonder how an open source project like this one compares. I suspect there are substantially more false positives/negatives than on a commercially developed version that needs to support everyone to be successful.

Apple's Face ID uses what is essentially a 3D camera, a simple 2D color camera cannot compare to that in terms of accuracy.

Apple has clearly done a lot of work in this space and have decided to retain Touch ID on Macbooks. I think this is fairly instructive.

Re: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

crowcroft wrote: post #22
e-topy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple's Face ID uses what is essentially a 3D camera, a simple 2D color camera cannot compare to that in terms of accuracy.

Apple has clearly done a lot of work in this space and have decided to retain Touch ID on Macbooks. I think this is fairly instructive.

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Re: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Post by Pwntastic »

joelthelion wrote: post #14

I wish we had good support for fingerprint readers instead.

It was relatively easy to setup a yubikey bio fingerprint device in arch with pam-u2f. I just kinda followed the wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Universal_2nd_Factor

It wasn't strictly plug and play, but it only took like 20 minutes of fiddling.

Re: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Post by real0mar »

crowcroft wrote: post #22
e-topy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple's Face ID uses what is essentially a 3D camera, a simple 2D color camera cannot compare to that in terms of accuracy.

Apple has clearly done a lot of work in this space and have decided to retain Touch ID on Macbooks. I think this is fairly instructive.

That was primarily because the face id sensor stack is too thick to fit in the laptop lid

Re: Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

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Post by crowcroft »

real0mar wrote: post #26
crowcroft wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has clearly done a lot of work in this space and have decided to retain Touch ID on Macbooks. I think this is fairly instructive.

That was primarily because the face id sensor stack is too thick to fit in the laptop lid

The point being that they think they need those sensors in order to create a secure system.
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