Facebook is doing some fancy stuff, Google is doing some groundbreaking research. Why shouldn’t we join? All resources are publicly available to make a working face recognition system, and this case study is about implementing & deploying something that could make our everyday life easier a bit.
The goal is a completely safe upgrade to our current security system that lets people who have signed up pass without their ID tag, using only their faces for identification. Why? For fun, for experience. This project is led by no financial motivations, but for pure science.
It is hard to trust such a system, especially when it is intelligent… This is why we have decided to make the whole source code along with the design steps available for anyone.
In order to decrease the possibility of Sam letting in people who otherwise could not come in, we have to train it to distinguish people better. That’s the reason behind the current phase.