Facial Recognition Technology: Innovation, Success, and Challenges

Innovation research project
(Facial recognition technology)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
The major Technological developments contributing in success of Facial recognition..................2
Success of Facial recognition for businesses...................................................................................3
Theory of innovation for success of facial recognition...................................................................5
Failure of such technology in some of the markets.........................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Face recognition technology............................................................................................1
Figure 2: Face recognition VS fingerprint.......................................................................................6

Introduction
Face recognition is one of the least intrusive and fastest biometric technologies that is one of the
latest innovation to identify the face of the individual. With increase in technology, Smartphones
are now equipped with facial recognition security that is one of the new way to unlock the
Smartphones. This technological innovation is more secure as compared to the normal
fingerprint scanner. Here, this technology people instead of placing finger on the reader, need to
precisely position in front of the scanner (Shoaib et.al. 2015). Facial recognition analyse the
characteristics of person’s face image through the digital video camera.
Facial recognition technology can be measured within the distance between the noses, width of
the nose, depth of eye sockets, length of the jaw line, etc. This technology was first invented in
Samsung that was based on identifying the patterns in person’s Iris. Detection can be based on
the surrounding lighting conditions that can be detected with the wavelength of front facing
cameras. It includes one suitable advantage as it does not require any of the Internet connection
as it is stored and processed locally on the mobile devices (De Marsico et.al. 2014). Similarly,
after success of such technology Apple also took effective advantage of providing more security
to the users of the mobile devices.
Figure 1: Face recognition technology
(Source: Luke Dormehl, 2017)
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