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Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux

78 points by LorenDB

by bsimpson

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I know there was extensive testing when face recognition authentication came to smartphones. I wonder how an open source project like this one compares. I suspect there are substantially more false positives/negatives than on a commercially developed version that needs to support everyone to be successful.

by aitchnyu

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Last time I tried it, I wished the DM indicated its processing my face and also if it failed, and a button to retry. Also will the model be fooled by an IR photo of my face?
I did have fun opening the IR camera feed and seeing objects of various opacity in visible spectrum behaving differently in IR.

by charcircuit

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This isn't "Windows Hello style." This program extracts features from a 2d image instead of doing depth reconstruction first. This makes it easy to fool with a piece of paper.
Also this only handles user authentication unlike on Windows where it can be usedpasskey. disk encryption and for passkeys.
Edit: This program also saves the landmarks of your face into a file in plain text when it gets added.

by joelthelion

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by deafpolygon

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by mouse_

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by seany

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I wonder what it would take to get an OSS fr model to decent performance on the NIST/iBeta rankings.

by fsateler

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The project seems active, but the last release is from 2020... Why no new releases?