Time and again, we have seen Flash being extended in unique ways by leveraging the power of AS3. We caught something in the feeds yesterday that truly took us by surprise – face recognition using Flash.
By using the AS3 Marilena library Squidder built this unique application that can recognize faces via object recognition. I’d hazard a guess that this is a great first step for cheap biometric identification enabled through camera enabled devices using a browser.
Quite obviously, our first thoughts reach out to embedding such identification in assessments, where they’d do a great job of ensuring the right person took the assessment.
Another way such an application could be used is by integrating it as an authentication method in a LMS or other web-based services. So rather than requiring a username password, an individual’s face is all that’s needed to logon to a system.
While these are real world applications that we’ll no doubt see in the near future, in my mind what this points to is the emergence of Flash with AS3 as a platform that’s capable of a lot more than simple multimedia presentation and interactions. It’s now becoming a truly powerful platform capable of delivering rich, interactive and computing intensive experiences through the browser.
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The 'Google' of Upside Learning, as he is fondly called, Abhijit plays a key role in guiding the Instructional Designers and is a chief member of the Innovation team.
With over 15 years of professional experience in multimedia design and development, he has been active in the field of digital learning design for the past 12 years, and has worked on design driven projects for multimedia kiosk software, interactive CD–ROMs, multimedia instructional simulations, game-based learning environments, computer–based training, web–based training, and learning management systems and standards. He has managed multiple technical instructional design and development projects for various Fortune 500 companies at another eLearning company and also has presented learning sessions at various L&D events like mLearnCon, co-hosted webinars alongside leading industry experts, co-authored an eBook on Mobile Learning, and authored whitepapers on Mobile Learning and Game–based Learning.
A Mechanical Engineer from the University of Pune, Abhijit is interested in multifarious subjects ranging from genetics, evolutionary biology, biochemistry, engineering, technology, computing to electronic games, media, communication, and the design of user experience and interaction.
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