Bias and morphing remain challenges in face biometrics, but measures are improving
A pair of the most pressing risks to the effectiveness of face biometric systems were under the microscope during the…
Biometric R&D
Biometric R&D refers to significant research and development in the biometrics sphere, from academia to applications. This includes market research, product development, awards recognition as well as new inventions and innovations.
AI might help you give face scrapers the deformed finger
Born as weird abstraction, AI imagery is finding its way to consumer usefulness. Two algorithms demonstrate that while AI is…
Apple patent hints at identifying people like puzzle pieces
Apple has applied for an international patent describing home surveillance software that would try to recognize a person by portions…
A big name enters the battle against deepfake threat
Intel says its new product, FakeCatcher, detects 96 percent of deepfakes. Executives say theirs is the first detector that works…
Facial recognition advances spurring new use cases, improvements in IFPC 2022 spotlight
Facial recognition is about to be able to accurately unmask deepfakes, match families walking through the airport all at once,…
Facial recognition research community going beyond the algorithm to improve accuracy
The concept of ‘garbage in, garbage out’ applies to biometric systems just as easily as it does to coding or…
IriTech and partners unveil decentralized wallet with iris biometrics
A trio of companies have completed a proof of concept (POC) for a decentralized ID (DID) smartphone wallet secured with…
US renews warning about Chinese biometric technology for a world audience
In December 2020, the U.S. Homeland Security Department warned that buying biometric systems from China is “a grave threat.” Almost…
Idemia, secunet, Tech5 achieve high scores in biometric benchmarks from NIST
Idemia has claimed it has achieved the most accurate matching algorithms for both fingerprint and palm-print datasets with accuracy 7…
New 3D sensors track body posture with wristband, integrate processing
Researchers from Cornell University have developed a wristband capable of tracking an entire body’s posture in 3D. The device, called…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection