Currently, reliable face detection and recognition are
becoming more important on mobile devices - e.g. to unlock
the screen. However, using only frontal face images for
authentication purposes can no longer be considered secure
under the assumption of easy availability of frontal
snapshots of the respective device owners from social
networks or other media. In most current implementations, a
sufficiently high-resolution face image displayed on
another mobile device will be enough to circumvent security
measures. In this paper, we analyze current methods to face
detection and recognition regarding their usability in the
mobile domain, and then propose an approach to a Face
Unlock system on a smart phone intended to be more secure
than current approaches while still being convenient to
use: we use both frontal and profile face information
available during a pan shot around the user’s head, by
combining camera images and movement sensor data. Current
results to face detection are promising, but reliable face
recognition needs further research.
@inproceedings{Findling_12_TowardsFaceUnlock, author = {Findling, Rainhard and Mayrhofer, Ren\'e}, title = {Towards Face Unlock: On the Difficulty of Reliably Detecting Faces on Mobile Phones}, booktitle = {Proc. {MoMM} 2012: 10th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia}, year = {2012}, editor = {Khalil, Ismail}, pages = {275--280}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, month = dec, publisher = {ACM}, documenturl = {http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/downloads/publications/MoMM2012-Mobile-Phone-Face-Detection.pdf}, doi = {10.1145/2428955.2429008}, eventurl = {http://iiwas.org/conferences/momm2012/}, keywords = {Face detection; face recognition; mobile phone; user authentication}, location = {Bali, Indonesia}, pubtype = {conference}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2429008} }