Facial Recognition: Soon, Your Phone Will Recognize Your Face

Could our phone one day soon recognize our face?

In the next decade alone, for both authentication and surveillance purposes, we're probably going to start seeing a number of devices that are, in fact, quite keen to our mug.

"Adoption of facial recognition will be particularly strong during the next several years in mobile device authentication, but areas of growth will also include government applications such as national ID cards and biometrics passports, as well as finance/banking and retail applications," the market intelligence firm Tractica said in a statement.

According to a new report from Tractica, annual facial recognition devices and licenses will increase from 28.5 million in 2015 to more than 122.8 million worldwide by 2024. Furthermore, the firm notes that this form of technology will become more widespread in even more devices used by consumers at work, in the office and even officials in the government, with ideas on national ID cards and biometric passports, as well as finance/banking and retail applications that might pick up on your face instead of your password or fingerprint .

"The largest use case for facial recognition is mobile device authentication," added principal analyst Bob Lockhart. "This use case is defined in massive volumes, but at a small unit price. The next substantial use case for facial recognition is to identify persons of interest. This use case exists in government, defense, law enforcement, and enterprise markets. Future applications include anonymously profiling people for uses like customized digital signage."

What's even better about this is that researchers say that facial recognition can be even more accurate than other biometric methods that recognize users.

"The next substantial use case for facial recognition is to identify persons of interest. This use case exists in government, defense, law enforcement, and enterprise markets," Lockhart concluded. "Future applications include anonymously profiling people for uses like customized digital signage."

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