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Using Pupil Reflection in Smartphone Camera Selfies

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Researchers are using the reflection of the smartphone in the pupils of faces taken as selfies to infer information about how the phone is being used:

For now, the research is focusing on six different ways a user can hold a device like a smartphone: with both hands, just the left, or just the right in portrait mode, and the same options in horizontal mode.

It’s not a lot of information, but it’s a start. (It’ll be a while before we can reproduce these results from Blade Runner.)

Research paper.

Tags: academic papers, identification, smartphones

Posted on May 3, 2022 at 11:17 AM16 Comments

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