Add face unlock to your Linux lockscreen

To run this:

git clone https://github.com/deepakgouda/faceunlock.git

cd faceunlock/Face\ Unlock/

Place an image of your face in the Face Unlock folder as 'user.jpg' or

• Uncomment a couple a lines as directed in face_recog.py.
• Run the program by python face_recog.py
• Comment out the couple of lines again.

Enter your password in face_unlock.py as mentioned.

Run the bash script by bash run.sh and leave the process running.

Next time you lock your desktop, on recognising your face the lockscreen will be unlocked.

Precautions:

• The face recognition is not scale invariant. Works if your face is roughly at the same distance as that of user.jpg .
• The face recognition works for frontal faces only.
• Change the read access of face_unlock.py to keep your password safe.
• Keep it away from your Identical Twin.

To do:

• Improve Face Recgnition.
• Add Scale Invariant Feature Transform.
• Add feature to detect profile faces.