Standard for iris images in federal IDs coming soon: NIST ITL director
During a tense subcommittee hearing, Charles Romine, director of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory promised a standard for iris images…
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.
New York College of Health Professions granted patent for biometric system for monitoring guard status
The New York College of Health Professions has just been granted a patent by the USPTO for a system which detects…
Biometric authentication provides better device security: report
According to the latest research report from Heavy Reading, biometric authentication provides superior device security. “Today’s phones already enable contactless…
Orbeus launches Rekognition, avoids Google Glass facial recognition ban
The Google Glass facial recognition saga continues. A new service, called Rekognition has recently been launched by San Francisco-based computer vision…
Venu Govindaraju elected SPIE fellow
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics has elected University at Buffalo researcher Venu Govindaraju a fellow of the organization, citing…
Innerscope Research appoints Bill Moult to CEO post
Innerscope Research has appointed former Neilson media researcher Bill Moult as CEO. Reported in mrweb.com, Innerscope, which specializes in biometric measurement,…
Researchers find biometrics a popular choice for security-conscious shoppers
New research from WorldPay suggests paying for goods and services through fingerprint, palm and iris scanners is the most popular…
DigitalPersona releases SDK for Android
DigitalPersona has just released its U.are.U software development kit for Android. “Our U.are.U SDK for Android gives developers the integration tools…
Researchers develop recognition software to identify unknown subjects of portrait art
Visual art is highly subjective and biometric identification is absolutely not, but researchers in California are working to develop a…
Google files patent application for facial expression recognition authentication system
Google has filed a patent application in regards to a facial recognition authentication system for mobile devices, which could see…
