Omron shows off facial-recognition software

Remember the cellphone with Omron's facial-recognition software we checked out a little while ago? Well, Omron has been showing it off lately, and they've released an English video recorded at the Security Show Japan to provide more details. The software's full name is the OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor, and it works with Symbian, embedded Linux and other mobile OSes (though not, apparently, PalmOS or Windows Mobile). Omron says it will work with any mobile device that uses a camera. The video's worth checking out if you can handle a 20MB download. If not, there's a press release that has a little more info.

[Via Akihabara News]

[Will Weider @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Does anyone else think the picture on the phone looks like a dog?

[Yet another matt @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

my problem is, how does she know shes holding the phone in the right place for a mug shot like that?

Apart from that... this would be great for when someone steals your phone, when its switched on, rather than a 5 digit code, it checks your face. Perfect for the paranoid with a fetish for dirty pictures of themselves.