New Microsoft tech means your smartphone will know you?re not just another pretty face

Facial detection is a big emerging technology in the smartphone space and Microsoft Research Asia is working on staying at the cutting edge.�Microsoft scientists released a software development kit this week that includes several of Microsoft’s latest face detection algorithms, including a face detection system that “tries to detect every face that appears in an image” and “identifies the face position of individuals pictured in the image” ? a face alignment feature that can locate the individual elements of each face, including the eyes, mouth and nose; and, most intriguingly, a face tracking feature that can find individual faces during live video streams and thus let users “use head movement to interact with a Windows Phone.” Microsoft has released three

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