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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.

 

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…

 

Baidu provides tools to make AI app development easy for non-coders

Baidu has updated its AI platform to make its tools, including facial recognition and natural language processing, more accessible to…

 

Canada opens new biometric collection locations for foreign visitors

Canada will expand the number of Visa Application Centers (VACs) it operates around the world from 137 in 95 countries…

 

London police expect to run more facial recognition trials this year

London Metropolitan Police are planning to run more trials of automated facial recognition technology this year, though are not expecting…

 

Samsung granted US patent for 3D camera system with iris recognition capability

Samsung has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a 3D sensing camera that can…

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