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Apple's New Face ID Biometric System Works in the Dark and When Your Face is Obscured by Hats and Beards
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It also makes the algorithm less specific. The way neural networks work is that as the definition expands it does not get more specific it gets less specific. So, it recognizes you in a hat and with a beard but also means the security of the device degrades. The fingerprint does not change so its definition remains precise. If it worked the way you claim shaving a beard would then mess it up, but the algorithm just remembers beard and no beard and all in-between meet the definition. For examples look at some of the misses the auto object identification gets in Photos to see how the algorithms must choose between sensitivity and specificity. That tradeoff is much different with touchID because fingerprint is constant.
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Its not an old wives tale. They are probab
Fingerprints are roughly 1 in 24 million based on research. Pretty dang good. The devices we use for convenience on our phones are not sensitive enough to clarify those differences so its something less than 1 in 24 million, but not even close to 1 in 50K.
And I think this is what some are not considering, is that technology needs to evolve and immature. Touch ID when it first started was slower and had it's discrepancies. But look how fast touch ID is and reliable. The same will apply to Face ID. At first, it may seem slower than touch ID and perhaps maybe not entirely perfect when using it. But that technology will continue to evolve and mature as Apple continues to prove it.
for those who have concerns about it here's a picture taken with an infrared camera of a woman wearing sunglasses...
Yup. Imagine looking through a photo album of someone throughout their life. You'd be much better able to identify them no matter what they wore if you had multiple looks to go from than if you had just one.
Face ID 2.0 will probably allow multiple people to unlock a device. They'll probably bring Face ID to the iPad next year and that will be where we will see Face ID 2.0. After all, it's probably more likely that multiple people will share an iPad as opposed to an iPhone.
I'm sure in April Apple will partner with RayBan, Revo, and Oakley to bring us invisible sunglasses that work with Face ID.
Erm fingerprint scanner fails about once every few days for me (greasy fingers, greasy home button etc). And i remember it was MUCH worse when it first came out. But people still adapted to it and got used to it.
And thats what people said about passcodes before touchID came out...
People gotta stop standing in the way of progress, embrace it!
This logic confuses me. The new phone that I don’t have is way better than my current phone, but the newer phone coming out is barely better than the new phone that already blows my current phone away, so I’m going to keep my vastly inferior phone. Huh?
I suppose those of us who regularly ride motorcycles are out of luck on this unless we go to a flip-face helmet.
I suppose I could wait another year or two, but it's been almost three years since my last upgrade. I don't want to wait any more. And whatever they offer in a couple of years will have still more unproven features.
Frankly I enjoy using the new features, anyway. I don't feel used.
Spying, data trading, but I guess the most down to earth would be when I'm using the phone for "grown up things".
Go look up some early threads when Touch Id was announced. Significant complaints and annoyances without anyone even using it.
This has nothing to do with blindly defending all things Apple (I'm happy to criticize them). This is thinking logically about what Apple is trying to do - showing the future of the iPhone. And along with removing bezels and a home button they've moved to what they're working toward being a more secure form of biometric security.