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Too much effort. Just print out a picture of a person with open eyes.

At that point it's really just the honor code that holds us to honesty.



Add heartbeat detection to verify the person is alive. [1] has one example, Google "use webcam to detect heartbeat" to find more.

[1] https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector


Add gaze tracking and have people look at a randomly moving dot.


While entering captcha codes every 10 seconds


This is so useful!


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Not everything is a soapbox for your pet hate, man. People are just sharing cool things you can do with webcams and computer vision.


Please don't be personally rude on HN. Your comment would be fine with just the second sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Cool. I should have just flagged and moved on.


Measurement of other minute facial feature movements besides blinking to detect whether it's a real person vs picture or other video?


I think we've just discovered the real use for Apple's Face ID. Staring contest video games.




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