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Correct, we do a decent job on mugshots/driver's licenses, but are not at commercial level performance yet. Keep an eye out for NIST FRVT 2012 [1] and our upcoming conference paper [2] if you'd like to see more complete comparisons.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2012.cfm

[2] http://openbiometrics.org/publications/klontz2013open.pdf

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Nice work! By the way, now that you're here ;) do you perhaps also know if there's a way to address fjcaetano's concerns if you have access to a full video feed?

"Liveness detection" is an active area of research within the community. I know you can enable this check on Android and it works moderately well.

Awesome. Thanks for the reference!

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