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Apple explains Face ID on iPhone X (CNET News)

2017-09-12
iPhone 10 your iPhone is locked until you look at it and it recognizes you nothing has ever been simpler more natural and effortless we call this face ID to make face ID possible took some of the most advanced technology we have ever created and much of it is packed right up here into this tiny little area at the top of the display we call this the true depth camera system and it is made up of incredible state-of-the-art technology there's an infrared camera a flood illuminator the front side camera and a dot projector and that's not all there's also the proximity sensor the ambient light sensor the speaker microphone all packed into this true depth camera system area it is amazing and here's how it works every time you glance at your iPhone 10 it detects your face with the flood a new illuminator even in the dark the IR camera takes an IR image the dot projector projects out over 30,000 invisible IR dots we use the IR image in the dot pattern and we push them through neural networks to create a mathematical model of your face and then we check that mathematical model against the one that we've stored that you set up earlier to see if to match and unlock your phone and this all happens in real time it all happens invisibly you don't see these things going off it's incredible it just all works it all happens when you set up face ID you just follow the on-screen instructions and it tells you how to move your head around in the camera so fess ID can recognize your face and that's it you do that once when you set it up and face ID learns your face even if you change your hairstyle you decide to put on glasses you're wearing a hat so you do it up anyway you do it base ID learns your face it learns who you are and it adapts to you as your face changes over time let's say you start to grow a beard it works in day it works at night and the data for touch ID has been 1 in 50,000 meaning that the chance that a random person could use their fingerprint to unlock your iPhone has been about 1 in 50,000 and it's been great so what are the similar statistics for face ID one in a million
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