Enhancing the Authentication Mechanism of Social Media Websites using Face Detection

Abstract

This paper includes different models used for the authentication of social media account. Importance of security in authentication is described in paper. Different security and privacy models and techniques for authentication are used over the social media. These techniques have limitations. In order to minimize the security risk of authentication and validation, a methodology called face detection and facial recognition is discussed in this paper. It provides the facility to improve security and to avoid unauthorized access of social media accounts.