RecognizeMe: Unlock Your iPhone Using Biometric Facial Recognition [Video]

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Posted May 18, 2011 at 12:04pm by iClarified

RecognizeMe is a new Cydia tweak that will let you unlock your iPhone using biometric facial recognition. The tweak comes from 3DBoard developer Apocolipse and has already been submitted to the Cydia Store for inclusion.

RecognizeMe is the first Facial Recognition security for the iPhone. Although not perfect, RecognizeMe does a pretty good job at facial recognition, given optimal conditions. RecognizeMe sits on the iPhone passcode screen, so it serves as an alternate to, rather than a replacement for the passcode.

Apocolipse notes that the tweak uses two 2 different algorithms to verify, one is good for accessing 3d biometrics, the other is good at weeding out false positives based on feature analysis.

You can see the tweak being demonstrated in the video below; although, it actually performs a bit faster when using. (DisplayRecorder slows it down).

RecognizeMe will initially be priced at $6.99.

RecognizeMe: Unlock Your iPhone Using Biometric Facial Recognition [Video]

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Cyber Mafia - May 19, 2011 at 6:02am

I dont have patience to wait till that slow shit scan my face .. till it scan i am already in phone just by passcode !!

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Liton - May 19, 2011 at 5:37am

For fun is OK, but not good for real use what I think.

Shameer - May 18, 2011 at 6:11pm

what if someone had a picture of you and held it up to ur phone ?

mohammad - May 19, 2011 at 1:34am

Thats exactly what I wanted to say!!

fintolini - May 19, 2011 at 1:52am

Yep exactly, can't see anyone paying $6.99 for this, apart from someone wanting to try and show off, when in fact they will be reducing the security on their iPhone. There will be some CEO / Director out there somewhere with a jailbroken device that gets caught out by this, can't wait.

Frank - May 19, 2011 at 2:38am

Its supposed to use 3d analysis which should prevent that problem.

absa01 - May 19, 2011 at 9:23am

@Frank How are you supposed to judge depth with a camera that takes 2D pictures? Learn the basics!

AA - May 18, 2011 at 2:12pm

what Beatles song was that?

John gray - May 18, 2011 at 12:52pm

Passcode lock is far better. What a garbage. Wasting yout time scanning your face & sending securely to hackers who knows.

Trev - May 18, 2011 at 12:47pm

well it's neat, but the fact that it takes so long and that you can still use the code makes it kinda pointless other than being neat