Labeled Faces in the Wild creators and Anil Jain each honored for biometrics contributions
The creators of the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) facial recognition dataset have been honored by the International Conference…
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Securiport partners with Integrated Biometrics and launches innovation cell
Fingerprint scanners for Securiport’s advanced multimodal civil aviation security, border management, and threat assessment solutions will be supplied by Integrated…
UK pilot of fingerprint biometric payment fob from G+D and Visa begins
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is trialing a fingerprint biometric fob for authenticating payments by its customers in the UK,…
Biometric hardware revenues forecast to hit $19B by 2024 on access control and camera growth
Growth in access control equipment, body-worn cameras, and surveillance cameras will drive global revenues in biometric hardware to $19 billion…
CITeR Director talks research to inform dialogue on children’s biometrics and privacy
Despite the impressive advances of biometrics as a scientific field over recent years, very little is known about identifying children…
Distributor agreement, $11M funding, and new vending machines for retail biometrics announced
A distribution agreement with Facewatch brings facial recognition to UK CCTV camera and components distributor DVS’ installer and reseller network…
Biometric authentication for mobile payments to skyrocket 10X to $2.5T by 2024
Biometric authentication will be used in $2.5 trillion in mobile payments by 2024, an increase of nearly 1,000 percent from…
Financials launch biometric and digital ID tech from Signicat, Keesing, Fortress Identity, FacePhi
The bank account verification service offered by SurePay has been integrated with Signicat’s Digital Identity Platform to allow financial institutions…
Rank One updates SDK for enhanced facial recognition accuracy and speed
Rank One Computing has announced an update to its ROC face recognition SDK which it says substantially improves accuracy, with…
Kaspersky introduces fake fingerprint ring to highlight biometric data security issues
To get around the theoretical problem of irrevocable biometric data being hacked, Kaspersky has teamed up with a jewelry designer…
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