Centre for Machine Vision
"It is on the verge of becoming really big" - Professor Lyndon Smith
"It is on the verge of becoming really big" - Professor Lyndon Smith
3D FACIAL RECOGNITION
People could soon be paying for items in shops and bars, going through security and events and sports venues, using their face, thanks to the team working on the renowned 3D Facial Recognition System.
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Instead of PIN numbers, contactless cards, eye scans or fingerprints, the technology will mean people can just look at a screen for half a second and be fully recognised. It has been confirmed to have endless applications.
Face recognition exists in other parts of the world, but usually relies on 2D data which can be easily fooled. The secure 3D system has been funded enough to be commercially implemented, and has come from a lab which has been working on facial recognition technology for over 10 years.
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Although this project is promising, Professor Lyndon Smith said this, "Things which are easy for the human eye to deal with, like changes in background light and people looking in different directions, are big problems for this technology. There’s a difference between making the system work in the laboratory and doing so in a busy supermarket, where there are changes in lighting conditions and people walking around in the background."
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Even so, the lab has high hopes for this system, and is hoping for it to be commercially used in the near future.
PROJECT TEAM
Wenhao Zhang
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Research Associate
Lyndon Smith​
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Professor and Co-Director
Abdul Farooq​
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Associate Dept. Head
3D systems of this kind have never before been made
this project
IN THE NEWS
Our project on 3D Facial Recognition has been picked up by the BBC.
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