Orlando police to continue Amazon facial recognition pilot
The Orlando Police Department has informed the city’s mayor and council in a memo that it will continue to test…
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New Xiaomi smartphone integrates infrared sensor system from ams for facial recogntion
Xiaomi’s new flagship smartphone integrates a low-power IR vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array from Austrian high-performance sensor maker ams…
Privacy groups urge Illinois Supreme Court to rule for plaintiff definition of harm in BIPA suit
A coalition of privacy advocacy groups have filed an amici curiae brief urging the Illinois Supreme Court to rule that…
Western Union patents money transfer system using biometrics-based sender verification
A Western Union patent application that describes a system to manage recurring transfer notifications and secure payments for an electronic…
Researchers develop model to scale 3D facial recognition
Researchers from The University of Western Australia (UWA) have developed a model for scaling 3D facial recognition which they say…
New system could soon send alerts from surveillance cameras to smartphones
Government agencies may soon be able to send people personalized messages from public security cameras with a system developed by…
PSD2 to drive biometric adoption for online payment authentication: Mastercard
With the number of online transactions requiring cardholder authentication to increase from roughly one or two percent today to as…
WTTC moving quickly to solve travel infrastructure crunch with harmonized biometric traveler identity
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) is very busy. It advocates for all of the companies that participate in…
Researchers develop transparent, flexible fingerprint sensor that detects tactile pressure and skin temperature
A team of researchers from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea have developed a capacitive…
Megvii and Vivo unveil new 3D facial recognition applications at Mobile World Congress Shanghai
Megvii and Vivo have jointly launched a series of 3D facial recognition applications based on a depth-sensing camera, including 3D…
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