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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.

 

Apple patent application for biometric authentication system to unlock multiple devices published

A patent application from Apple that describes a system to authenticate multiple user devices using authenticated device assisted user authentication…

 

Facial recognition researchers look for a culprit in gender inequality, come up empty

A group of researchers has looked at possible reasons that biometric facial recognition accuracy is different for men and women,…

 

NASA to licence heartbeat biometric patent and subcutaneous vein imager

NASA has launched a new heartbeat biometric patent for commercial licensing to enable developers and solutions integrators to offer the…

 

Idex Biometrics announces breakthrough system-on-chip technology slashing smart card costs

Idex Biometrics is launching a biometric-system-on-chip (BSoC) which holds the potential promise to lower the manufacturing cost of biometric smart…

 

New face-cloaking tool 100 percent effective against Amazon, Microsoft, Face++ in testing

Researchers say they have found sand to throw in the gears of unauthorized deep-learning models that harvest facial images online….

 

How FIDO-based biometric technology clears up the IoT authentication mess

IoT devices can be a security nightmare for businesses and consumers, and now that they have become part of daily…

 

Facebook pays users for their voice recordings to improve speech recognition tech

After it was caught in the act of secretly transcribing voice recordings without user consent, Facebook is officially upgrading its…

 

Google responds to limitations of gender labels in facial analysis by removing them to avoid bias

Google has removed gender labels from its Cloud Vision API to avoid bias or misclassification of people with its facial…

 

Google, Apple announce biometric security upgrades for operating systems

Plenty of exciting security upgrades are expected this year for both Android and iOS. As Google is introducing upgraded biometrics…

 

Qualcomm helps German startup sell its skin-sensing liveness sensor

Biometric liveness testing reportedly is taking a big step forward in a Qualcomm accelerator program with a new algorithm that…

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