10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the method further comprises: authenticating the user and granting the user access to the resources of the mobile computing device when the representation of the first face and the representation of the second face are determined to match.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the face is a first face, the method further comprising: responsive to the image being classified as a good quality image: retrieving, by the mobile computing device, a template that includes at least a portion of a second face; aligning representations of the first face with the second face based at least in part on the facial landmarks of the image and facial landmarks of the template; comparing the representations of the first face and the second face in order to determine if the representation of the first face matches the representation of the second face; and authenticating the user based on the comparison.