PROVO — A new type of facial recognition technology designed by a Brigham Young University professor could make facial identification unlocking methods less vulnerable to hackers — and it isn’t just for your phone.
By now, we’ve all heard of Face ID, and some of us might even have it on our phones. You hold the phone up to your face, it recognizes you and then lets you unlock your device.
The technology does have downsides — like it could be used by another person pointing a camera at someone while the user is sleeping. BYU computer and electrical engineering professor D.J. Lee decided to add another layer of protection into the face identification technology to create a two-factor verification process. Instead of simply a face as the access code, it’s a face doing a unique movement.
