Face recognition in GDM ...

[José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto <jmbuenaposada escet urjc es>]

Hi to all GDM developers,

I'm a researcher in Computer Vision and I'd like to add some sort of 
face recognition
sytem to the Linux login. The idea is to use real-time face recognition 
throught a video
camera to select the right user's name from a little database containing 
an image of
each user. The user, of course, will have to type the password but not 
the login name
(for extra security). I'm thinking in implementing one of the state of 
the art face detectors
and face recognition algorithms (as it will not be the main user's 
identification method,
as the passwd will remain in place, it has not to be very sofisticated).

The idea is to be developed within a master thesis of one of our 
students. What
I'd like to know, before even look for a student to do it, is what do 
you think
(GDM developer) will be the best way to modify the GDM code?, the place 
in the
code to loook for? what to modify with the minimum impact in stability? 
What version
of the code is best to start? And what ever do you think will be 
interesting ...
I have not even taken a look into the GDM code yet.

I think it will be very cool to have such a thing as face recogtion in 
the linux login

Best regards.
JM.

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Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnologia (ESCET).
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
C/ Tulipan, s/n. E-28933 Mostoles. Madrid (Spain)
phone: (+34) 914888129
email: jmbuenaposada escet urjc es
web  : http://www.ia.escet.urjc.es/~jmbuena
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