Add face unlock to your Linux lockscreen
To run this:
git clone https://github.com/udipta/facelock.git
cd facelock/Face\ Lock/
Place an image of your face in the Face Unlock folder as 'user.jpg' or
- Uncomment a couple a lines as directed in face_recog.py.
- Run the program by
python face_recog.py - Comment out the couple of lines again.
Enter your password in face_unlock.py as mentioned.
Run the bash script by bash run.sh and leave the process running.
Next time you lock your desktop, on recognising your face the lockscreen will be unlocked.
Precautions:
- The face recognition is not scale invariant. Works if your face is roughly at the same distance as that of user.jpg .
- The face recognition works for frontal faces only.
- Change the read access of face_unlock.py to keep your password safe.
- Keep it away from your Identical Twin.
To do:
- Improve Face Recgnition.
- Add Scale Invariant Feature Transform.
- Add feature to detect profile faces.