Apple and Qualcomm jointly promote facial recognition! Mobile fingerprint recognition will be relegated to the sidelines

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Fingerprint recognition is a standard feature in today's smartphones. From thousand-yuan phones to flagship phones, everyone has become accustomed to this feature. With a light touch of the finger, the tedious step of entering a password is completely eliminated.

Technology is constantly moving forward, and fingerprint recognition will not be the end. So who will be the next to take the lead in mobile phone applications of biometric technology? Face recognition, the banner of accelerating the popularization and killing fingerprint recognition, will eventually be carried by Apple.

In addition to Apple, Qualcomm is also following up on facial recognition technology, such as their recently launched Spectra imaging system, which will be embedded in the new generation of Snapdragon flagship mobile processors to extract depth information from the user's face and other parts.

The facial recognition technology on mobile phones is different from that on surveillance cameras. The former only needs to recognize the user's face. At the same time, because it is equipped with 3D sensors and infrared recognition, it can allow the phone to be accurately unlocked in a completely dark environment. At the same time, it can also filter out some adverse factors of the environment based on the details of your facial parts.

Many suppliers have revealed that Apple will equip the iPhone 8 with a facial recognition function this year. It is said that the facial recognition time is only one millionth of a second, and the relevant patents have been obtained. It should be noted that Apple acquired PrimeSense, an Israeli startup that was an early developer of Kinect, as early as 2013.

In addition, Qualcomm and Apple's face recognition solutions have also added "liveness detection", but the biggest loophole is that twins who look exactly the same may be able to hide from the system detection. In addition to mobile phones, this technology will be used in many smart homes in the future, such as smart doorbells, smart door locks, etc. Compared with fingerprint recognition, this is undoubtedly more versatile and safer. Of course, this technology has enough potential to penetrate into people's daily lives.

Every time a new technology is launched before it is widely used, it is considered extremely radical to declare the existing mature old technology dead. However, this is often the case. Apple is not only keen on changing interfaces, but also on new biometric technologies.