Thursday, August 20, 2015

Windows Hello face recognition not fooled by Australian twins

Microsoft's facial recognition software does something amazing when it encounters twins (Business Insider)
Each set of twins set up an account for one and then the other attempted to log-in — and the software held. According to The Australian, there was not one instance of Windows Hello allowing the wrong twin access to the computer.
The headline to the contrary, notwithstanding, Microsoft's facial recognition software pretty much does nothing when it encounters a legitimate user's identical twin.