yes, but its still first gen first soft algoritms...remember, those 20-30.000dots can have other algorithms in time
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Face ID Appears to Fail at Telling Apart Brothers Who Aren't Twins in New Videos [Updated]
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Wrong, the two initial scans actually form the least accurate version of your face.
The important part that people aren't realizing is that when you record those two first scans, the phone only registers partial information for both scans.
Each scan after that to unlock your phone adds incremental measurements to the full database of measurements of your face.
Now their is a maximum amount of scanned measurements that are kept in this database of facial scans. Whatever that maximum number is, once its reached, you have your most accurate Face ID.
People need to stop assuming, and read the actual information.
Its also important to note that the phone will NEVER have full measurements of all aspects of your face. Apple prevented this so that if the data is removed from your phone, they wont be able to remake your face.
What none of us here know is how Face ID determines that the person looking at the phone is the same as the one who trained it. We also don't know exactly how Face ID learns to accept changes, though Apple says: "If there is a more significant change in your appearance, like shaving a full beard, Face ID confirms your identity by using your passcode before it updates your face data."
It's possible that the system has a tunable threshold for determining a match. If it does, would it be possible to have a setting that requires a higher degree of certainty, even at the expense of the phone asking you for your passcode more often?
It'd also be really interesting to see what happens when people with similar, but not identical, faces go through the two-step Face ID training process.
It's possible that the system has a tunable threshold for determining a match. If it does, would it be possible to have a setting that requires a higher degree of certainty, even at the expense of the phone asking you for your passcode more often?
It'd also be really interesting to see what happens when people with similar, but not identical, faces go through the two-step Face ID training process.
Not that there would be a practical reason for doing so, but if multiple people who looked similar took turns getting their faces scanned, would the software form a composite model of all of their faces, thereby allowing any or some of the same people to pass scan security? Most likely not, but it would be an interesting test.
I like this. It's great. I like my iPhone 8 Plus with TouchID so much. I have 3 iMacs, 2 Mac Minies, a Macbook Pro, the latest iPad and so on. My appartment is littered with IOT devices and still as soon as I heard of FaceID I thought.... "That's not very well thought through."
Touch ID is 100%. Well, at least I haven't heard or read about anyone being able to unlock another persons iPhone with their finger
What would happen is you would essentially have data from both faces on the phone. This would make it difficult for both faces to unlock the phone. Thats why both brothers couldn't unlock the phone on the first try. The phone is essentially looking for a face that is now different from both brothers because of the combined data.
Very happy with my Touch ID.
I'm just ok with it.
Fails to unlock 10% of the time (and I retrain every so often), I suspect due to moisture. If I wear gloves, as I often do, that jumps to failing 100% of the time.
I have unlock my best friends phone and a coworkers phone with touch ID.
Shambles. And you just know that after 1 year of "we've still got a fingerprint sensor!" the Android manufacturers will do exactly the same thing :/
As a twin we tested and found that we could not trick FaceID. https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/926509744847708160
Like I said in another thread, the computational problems Apple is trying to solve with FaceID are insanely hard. In any solution to a complex problem, there will have to be a compromise between speed and accuracy. No doubt FaceID employs such a compromise, and its identifying of faces will be approximately correct rather than perfect. It will work for most people most of the time.
The question is whether failures are common enough to make the user experience frustrating. It seems like the feedback from people who have the phone is that FaceID works well enough. Now my worry is about OLED screen burn-in....
The question is whether failures are common enough to make the user experience frustrating. It seems like the feedback from people who have the phone is that FaceID works well enough. Now my worry is about OLED screen burn-in....
iPhone 8 is what folks should get then. My wife’s fingers are not recognized by TouchID. She has to enter security code every time to unlock her phone. The only reason she has a lock code is iCloud. If it weren’t for iCloud, she wouldn’t have the lock code or TouchID. FaceID is a good security feature for her to eliminate having to unlock with a security code.
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I can see them disabling it for certain people (e.g. those who work with clients in the defense industry). I don’t know how they have handled facial recognition on the Note 8, which is easier to hack. However, that phone retained the fingerprint sensor.
So, yes, it can understand that you've grown a beard and that might have changed the apparent proportion of your face, that's not quite the same as continuing to collect data about your core feature and face shape/ proportion though is it? That's not going to stop it recognising this guy's brother as him in other words.
They don't look similar at all. Noses and facial shape are different. The fact that adding the glasses lowers the threshold of a match is very concerning.
Really? thats an excuse? I bet if this was Samsung, they would be torched !Yes, I think this is where the attention should be... establishing if indeed FaceID does get better over time and with use.
I have a twin, though... so I'm screwed.
WTF !!! I care, I paid $1000
. If it was free I wouldn't care.