Face detection spills over to notebooks

Damian Koh | Nov 21, 2006

We've seen Fujifilm and Canon belting out their face detection-enabled digicams for a while. Now even Lenovo, the PC manufacturer, wants a piece of that pie.

Not quite the same snazzy face detection we see the cameras which automatically detects and focuses on faces, Lenovo's face recognition software--Veriface--on the Y300 notebook is intended to provide an additional layer of security when users log onto their laptops.

The onboard 1.3-megapixel Webcam measures the distance between the eyes and the nose, as well as several high points of your facial features. If it matches the digital map of your face stored on the computer, then voila, you've just logged onto your computer--James Bond style.

Now we all know Bond has a lot of enemies, so it pays to know which terrorist has been trying to impersonate him in order to gain access to his files. If terror hasn't succeeded already, Veriface keeps a log of unauthorized personnel who have tried to login.

If only camera manufacturers would include such a feature on their shooters, then denial is no longer possible for those who have been using our cameras without our permission.

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