Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Facial recognition method and apparatus and imposter recognition method and apparatus

Abstract:

A face recognition method and apparatus, the method comprising: capturing a first image, the first image including a face content of a user and a background content; adjusting a relative position between an image capture device and the user; capturing a second image after the relative position is adjusted, the second image comprising a second face content of the user and a second background content; comparing the face content and the background content in the first image with those in the second image respectively and obtaining difference information; and determining that the user is an authentic user or an impostor according to the difference information. According to embodiments of the present application, the problem that current face liveness detection methods fail in recognizing impostors can be solved.