Friday, August 03, 2007

Forget your PIN? Use your face

I raised the point of Body Part Recognition last Sunday [rather poorly - it was Sunday - and I had things to do]. I am yet to be convinced we are on the right path, but these are early stages, and we are just taking our first steps.

Face recognition as a unique biometric is growing slowly in certain corporate and consumer applications, but researchers at the University of Houston (UH) are trying to make the technology far more ubiquitous and secure: they want it to replace the dozens of personal identification numbers (PIN), passwords and credit card numbers everyone uses every day.

Read the article HERE.

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