On computer face recognition:
Shaving probably will not be a problem, but holding your head at a slightly different angle... will screw up the system totally, unless the system has radically improved since the last time I read up on it.
At 11:45 AM 4/9/96 -0500, K00l Secrets wrote:
Well, the systems I have seen are quite good at finding people's eyes. Scaling (for distance), and rotation (for the angle of your head) therefore don't really confuse the system once it has your eyes.
Finding the eyes can only control for rotations in the plane of the image, when you tilt your head to one side. They cannot handle the much more common case of 3D rotations, where you look slightly to the right or slightly to the left of camera. Facial expressions also throw them badly. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com