Windows 8 Face Recognition Login API Interface Exposure

Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows 8, will not be officially available for a while, but recently, the Windows 8 operating system has been exposed to a lot of news. We are from time to time. I can always see some features of the pull of the wind. Today we have seen a pull-down feature that Microsoft Windows 8 will support, which is face recognition login, which is disclosed by a recent Windows 8 API screenshot.

Because a foreign expert has found a face recognition login API interface in the Windows 8 operating system, this also means that the Windows 8 operating system may support user face tracking recognition and corresponding login functions. That is to say, once the user sits in front of the computer, the operating system will judge whether to log in based on the detected facial information. In addition, based on this technology, in theory, for multi-user computers, different users can log in to different users before sitting in the computer. Is this function enough to pull the wind?

According to the Windows8 Italia website, Microsoft uses a recognition system similar to the Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral body peripheral in the face recognition login function of the Windows 8 operating system. In the Xbox 360 Kinect example, Microsoft has Implemented facial recognition login Xbox Live service. Microsoft will now adopt this unique login method on the Windows 8 operating system, which will bypass the traditional Windows operating system login method. In addition, Lenovo has already adopted a similar recognition system on some laptops. At that time, Lenovo used the built-in camera of the notebook to achieve this function, but if Microsoft integrated facial recognition into the Windows 8 operating system, it means This feature will be supported by all future OEM computers.