Socure praises digital identity focus, overdue standards project in CHIPS and Science Act
The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into U.S. law last week, is a huge win for the global technology industry,…
Articles By Chris Burt
Chris Burt is managing editor and industry analyst at Biometric Update. He has also written nonfiction about information technology, dramatic arts, sports culture, and fantasy basketball, as well as fiction about a doomed astronaut. He lives in Toronto. You can follow him on Twitter @AFakeChrisBurt.
Dividing face images makes for better biometric presentation attack detection
Seeing the big picture is useful in completing some tasks, but it introduces extraneous details that can confuse matters on…
Illuma Labs brings 2 credit union customers onboard as voice biometrics investors
Illuma Labs is raised funds from two of its existing credit union customers after demonstrating the effectiveness of its voice…
Kenyan election’s poll-day success belies suspicion of Smartmatic biometric voter kits
Ahead of a court challenge of the results of Kenya’s recent election, African publication The Elephant examined the role of…
Idiap researchers propose biometric fairness metrics to decouple bias from accuracy
Several new measures for quantifying demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric identity verification systems are suggested in a paper which…
Face biometrics deployed for everything from supermarket payments to World Cup security
Face biometrics deployments spanning identity verification, small-n searches and large-scale forensic investigation, and even live facial recognition dominate the most-read…
OCR Labs appoints leader to expand biometric onboarding into gaming industry
Fiona Davies has been appointed OCR Labs Global’s new head of Gaming to drive the expansion of the company’s identity…
Biometric bartender can tell if you want to talk about the weather or just be left alone
A good bartender is able to anticipate the kind of interaction a customer is looking for from cues provided by…
Facial recognition getting better at handling modest angles and big smiles
The state of the art of facial recognition has improved over recent years to the point of handling certain kinds…
Start small, test, and iterate: legal ID delivery advice from OpenCRVS engagement lead
Civil registration and vital statistics registries are critical tools for governments to understand the populations they are trying to serve;…
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