[mtrimpe]

I'm curious about how to interpret their 'Face Recognition Evaluation' data though.

I'd like to use this for authentication purposes but if I'm interpreting it right their performance is close to existing solutions, but not close enough for commercial use.

[jklontz]

Correct, we do a decent job on mugshots/driver's licenses, but are not at commercial level performance yet. Keep an eye out for NIST FRVT 2012 [1] and our upcoming conference paper [2] if you'd like to see more complete comparisons.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2012.cfm

[2] http://openbiometrics.org/publications/klontz2013open.pdf

[mtrimpe]

Nice work! By the way, now that you're here ;) do you perhaps also know if there's a way to address fjcaetano's concerns if you have access to a full video feed?

[jklontz]

"Liveness detection" is an active area of research within the community. I know you can enable this check on Android and it works moderately well.

[mtrimpe]

Awesome. Thanks for the reference!

[fjcaetano]

Authentication is problematic, because using a photo can trigger the algorithm to successfully authenticate the user.

I've done this a couple of times with my brother's phone. All I had to do as load his profile picture on my phone and show it to his camera.