New entrants join biometrics market as established players branch out
New biometrics projects and innovations like Akiyama Group’s Natosafe baby biometrics system, Tata’s Indian passports and new access control market…
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.
Bias testing introduced for biometric liveness detection in ID R&D, BixeLab collaboration
A new test protocol to evaluate the demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric liveness detection systems has been developed by…
Synthetic data getting serious for biometrics training
Synthetic data created by artificial intelligence systems, for AI systems is a growing market, as general adversarial networks (GANs) are…
Giesecke+Devrient acquires Valid USA to increase payment, digital ID security
Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security (G+D) has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) for the acquisition of Brazil-based firm Valid’s payment and…
Trinsic takes $8.5M in Seed round to add headcount, speed decentralized digital ID expansion
Digital identity vendor Trinsic has closed an $8.5 million Seed round led by venture fund Georgian with participation from Kickstart…
Engineer writes biometric code to ID anonymous faces in Holocaust photos
Google engineer Daniel Patt claims to have created facial recognition software that can identify unidentified faces in photos from prewar…
Problems with audits for bias in AI systems highlighted in research paper
Sasha Costanza-Chock, co-author of a research paper which looks into algorithmic audits, says there are many areas that require improvement…
US government committee gather evidence on biometric privacy-enhancing technologies
Biometric privacy-enhancing technologies (BPET) could play a major role in protecting the sensitive information of Americans, experts told a House…
iBeta report compares ISO and FIDO standards for biometric presentation attack testing
Biometrics test lab iBeta published a new report comparing the effectiveness of the ISO 30107 and FIDO protocols in relation…
Mantra’s dual iris biometric scanner certified for use with India’s Aadhaar
Mantra Softech announced its iris scanner MATISX has received the Standardization Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) from the Indian government….
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection