1. A method comprising: capturing, via a computing device, a representation of a user, said representation comprising a rendering of a face of the user; parsing, via the computing device, said captured representation to identify facial features of the user, said parsing comprising determining information associated with a human being based on the identified facial features; determining, via the computing device, a live-ness of the captured representation based on the determined information, said live-ness indicating that the representation is of a human being and not a non-human representation; and enabling, via the computing device, facial recognition authentication of the user based on said live-ness determination.