Artificial Intelligence is Microsoft's key to improving its facial recognition system

Does anyone remember the use of passwords or unlock patterns to access our mobile? They are less and less used how due to new unlocking methods that are safer and more comfortable to use that little by little have become popular among the different models since their arrival on the high-end.

Fingerprint readers, once near perfection of operation, have given way to the iris reader (used by Samsung for example) or Face ID, the system devised by Samsung. However, despite the good impressions they offer, they are still a long way from the good behavior of the fingerprint reader, a disadvantage that leads brands to work on improving facial recognition systems.

Reduce error rate

And that is what Microsoft is doing, as announced on the company's official blog. They are concentrating their efforts to facial identification systems acquire more features when working with different users.

New developments that are capable of recognizing the sex of people with great precision regardless of skin color The reason is that the errors are more numerous in those subjects that offer a darker coloration compared to the greater true in people with light complexions.

Microsoft has improved its facial recognition system with the aim of eliminating the higher error rate that exists in dark-skinned subjects. They have managed to reduce the error rate by 20%.

To achieve this improvement, they have relied on the use of Artificial Intelligence, which works with real statistical data in order to to develop solutions that end this problem. A base that is based on the work of different teams of professionals.

To this end, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies carry out work based on the data collected from the different profiles that can be find in society to develop a pattern on which to work.

Source | Microsoft Blog In Xataka | Face ID on the iPhone X and Samsung's iris scanner: different solutions to the same problem