Image Recognition
A team at Auckland University have figured out how to make a 3D print of a face so accurate it can crack a cellphone’s facial recognition security. And to prove it, the Creative Design Adaptive Manufacturing Lab printed out a bust of 1News reporter Logan Church, which could successfully break into some, but not all, cell phones that used facial recognition as security. That 3D model is then put onto a computer, tidied up, and 3D printed - creating a hyper-realistic real-world model. ADVERTISEMENTAnd testing it on low-to-mid range phones, it managed to fool facial recognition security (higher-end phones 1News tested were not so easily tricked). “It's not that we are trying to break into phones; we're trying to test the limits of this technology for real-world, human-centric problems we can solve.”