Patent ID: 8559684

Claim:
A method comprising: determining a distinctiveness of a first set of facial features of an enrolling user of a facial recognition system based at least in part upon a comparison of the first set of facial features of the enrolling user to facial features of a plurality of other users, the first set of facial features of the enrolling user being extracted from one or more images of the enrolling user, wherein the comparison of the first set of facial features of the enrolling user to the facial features of the plurality of other users further comprises a comparison of at least a first face template that quantifies the first set of facial features of the enrolling user to at least a second template that quantifies the facial features of the plurality of other users; and determining, by a computing device, a threshold similarity score associated with the first set of facial features of the enrolling user based at least in part on the distinctiveness of the first set of facial features of the enrolling user, wherein a second set of facial features of an accessing user matches the first set of facial features of the enrolling user if a similarity score between the first set of facial features of the enrolling user and the second set of facial features of the accessing user exceeds the threshold similarity score for the first set of facial features.