Patent 11488419 was granted and assigned to Accenture on November, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving a color image and an IR image, the IR image taken contemporaneously with the color image, providing a set of facial landmarks depicted in the color image, determining a depth value for each facial landmark in the set of color landmarks, depth values being provided from the IR image, determining an average depth difference based on at least a sub-set of facial landmarks in the set of facial landmarks, comparing the average depth difference to a difference threshold to provide a comparison, and selectively authenticating the person based on the comparison.