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Faceid has improved?!
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Ladies and gents.... we have an official Face ID hater over here.
Wonder if he has even ever used it at all??
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I smell a troll. Look at his signature.
Makes sense
In a related concept, I'm wondering about transitions - like if you have no facial hair, and slowly grow a huge hipster beard, the ML should incrementally adjust for the hair, some facial contours being obscured, etc. However, if you did an initial setup with a clean shave, used the device for a week - then didn't use it for a month, came back like Grizzly Adams, would the difference be so great it couldn't "connect the dots" so to speak.
You'd imagine it wouldn't recognize...
But there isn't a cat in hell's chance that anyone wouldn't see their phone (X of all) for that long
You'd imagine it wouldn't recognize...
But there isn't a cat in hell's chance that anyone wouldn't see their phone (X of all) for that long
It's about the same odds as me growing a big old beard
I think the device requires a password after 48 hours without logging in with a Face ID anyway, so hard to test out. My understand is it adjusts to incremental changes, but who knows what means. I set it up Day 1 and Day 2 asked it to recognize me with a toque pulled down to my eyebrows and aviator sunglasses. It did.
You'd simply side step FaceID, let it do a passcode only "reactivation" after 48 hours, sleep it, try Face ID
Anyway, FaceID has been outstanding for me. It worked outside this weekend in intense [Orlando, FL] sunlight, inside line queues, in a couple of attractions (one with funky blue light and I was wearing 3D glasses), and when I swam up, under water, to the edge of the pool, checked my phone (pounded the last of my beverage
) I was especially stoked about the water resistance these past few days (even though I realize that's not exclusive to the X).
Don't rub it in right? It's freakin cold here in Londonnyway, FaceID has been outstanding for me. It worked outside this weekend in intense [Orlando, FL] sunlight, inside line queues, in a couple of attractions (one with funky blue light and I was wearing 3D glasses), and when I swam up, under water, to the edge of the pool, checked my phone (pounded the last of my beverage
But seriously, the machine learning stuff is intriguing.
Apparently, the Google Pixel camera (last year's model) is taking better photos this year due to the same tech..seems it has 'learned' from all the data accumulated over the year!
This is a thing, and it will never work like that. A lot of people will have this issue. Checking when in a drowsy state will be problematic. However, one way to circumvent this would be to have a 'nighttime timer', or an easy way to turn it off or on. (They also could allow a second mode for this specific thing, some how).
Maybe there is a way, I just haven't found it.
You'd simply side step FaceID, let it do a passcode only "reactivation" after 48 hours, sleep it, try Face ID
Anyway, FaceID has been outstanding for me. It worked outside this weekend in intense [Orlando, FL] sunlight, inside line queues, in a couple of attractions (one with funky blue light and I was wearing 3D glasses), and when I swam up, under water, to the edge of the pool, checked my phone (pounded the last of my beverage
Yes, good point.
I have also found Face ID outstanding. Super impressed with it. At first it did not work at some of the stranger angles, but not is seems to (using the fail, then passcode option)...so much so I am already on the home screen before I realize I am trying to unlock at an odd angle.
So basically, you recreated the Apple advertisement, plus tasty beverage? Awesome!
I've had a few fails, but that was because I positioned my phone at a weird angle and in low light.
I tried this today by covering my mouth and letting it fail, then entering my pass code, then trying again but it still does not let me in?? I thought the machine learning would take effect
Nope, perfectly possible, and actually implemented. Every time you enter your passcode after a failed scan it updates the model.
And it can be demonstrably proven very easily.
You'd simply side step FaceID, let it do a passcode only "reactivation" after 48 hours, sleep it, try Face ID
Anyway, FaceID has been outstanding for me. It worked outside this weekend in intense [Orlando, FL] sunlight, inside line queues, in a couple of attractions (one with funky blue light and I was wearing 3D glasses), and when I swam up, under water, to the edge of the pool, checked my phone (pounded the last of my beverage
Same experience here. Face ID is an unqualified improvement for me. Logging into password secured dapps without having to do anything else is amazing.
The learning process is very incremental and there is core understanding of "facial content", and how it changes over time.
It would probably fail to authenticate at first, but after typing in your passcode it'd augment that data with your enrolled face data so that it wouldn't happen again. At least that's what I'd guess would happen. Maybe it wouldn't fail at all and would just know it's you regardless of your new crazy beard.
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Mine learned this over the course of a few days. Now authenticates me even if my face is pushed halfway into my pillow.