Researching face verification/tracking with N900

A Europe-based research project, MoBio, is working on security algorithms involving facial and vocal recognition. The group has released a demo of their facial recognition software running on the N900. In the Mobile Biometrics (MoBio) project, we aim to do both face and voice verification using the camera and microphone that are built into a modern mobile phone. This will provide secure access to mobile internet applications (such as e-mail, social networking and internet banking) without the need to remember passwords. Getting the computer to 'remember' (i.e. store) your passwords is especially dangerous since your phone could easily fall into the wrong hands. The MoBio project is unique in that its algorithms run on the mobile phone (rather than a high-powered PC) and must work with the low quality data that we get from a typical mobile camera. See the video after the break for more.