Face Recognition for Windows Login
This software is completely free - and 100% cool:
How does BananaScreen work? With a simple webcam, facial features are captured to build a statistical representation of the face. No picture is stored on your hard drive (or anywhere else) but only your face model (binary format).
Do I need a particular webcam? We successfully tested BananaScreen with most of the recent (<2 years) webcams. If you encounter a compatibility problem with a webcam, please post a message in this forum with a detailed description of the webcam. We will try to fix the problem as soon as possible and keep you aware.
What about privacy? No picture is stored on your hard drive nor transmitted on internet. Only your face model is locally stored. This model is based on some statistics of your facial features and is saved in a binary format which cannot be read by third parties.
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November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am
Windows Lock/Unlock Via Webcam Chris Pirillo pointed out some software from BananaSecurity which uses a webcam to recognize your face, lock your computer when you’re not there, and unlock it only when it recognizes your face again. Obviously there are some questions about this, like what if I’m wearing a
DarkAlly
July 13th, 2007
at 5:20am
This is interesting but a password works just fine. I think people don’t realize how easy it is to create and memorize a series of letters and numbers. I can easily keep up to five or six passwords in my head, none of which have any words in them. To be honest I don’t need more than two now that i use PassPack.
GiM
July 15th, 2007
at 3:57pm
Now I understand why we need a Quad Pentium instead of a Pentium III…
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March 27th, 2008
at 11:09am
I installed this software couple of days ago, works fine. But to test it I ask my friend to sit infront of the PC and screen was unlocked by his face.
pramod
March 28th, 2008
at 11:28pm
my banana login software is not working with creative pd1100 web came. it is getting automaticaly system restared please help me
marty
June 27th, 2008
at 10:39pm
how do i DISABLE “Face-Recognition”, in Windows VISTA?
Abijah Gupta
August 26th, 2008
at 2:34am
Good software!
Actually its just for fun, coz on some or the other angle, anybody’s face unlocks the computer easily.
But, i admit its really a cool aslternate way to “lock and unlock” the computer ;-)
Chris
December 8th, 2008
at 2:53am
ive tried this program and it keeps crashing my computer what do i do?
Dirk
December 8th, 2008
at 1:32pm
This tool is only for fun. To bypass the software just press ctrl. + alt + del and deactivate the programm with the task manager.
Andrew DC
December 11th, 2008
at 2:59am
In some cases it might be useless for security, someone could stick your picture in front of the camera and gain access
Ian
April 5th, 2009
at 1:45am
I have a Dell inspiron 1525 and get BSOD on boot after installing this.
I’m running vista home premium.
Removed bananascreen via safe mode and it was all good again.
It seems the like the software either conflicts with the Dell webcam software or the hardware.
Can you try and solve this?
Pavv
April 23rd, 2009
at 7:43am
I tried Banana before and have the same problems with it. Now I use Rohos Face Logon, works better (i.e. my friends cant unlock by face:) ) and it has a feature to prevent hi-res-image photo-match unlock.