ACCS’s Tony Allen breaks down Australia’s Age Assurance Technology Trial
In Canberra on Thursday, Tony Allen, CEO of the Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS), presented a stakeholder briefing on 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 model that copies human personality opens questions on deepfakes
Scammers are already using audio and video deepfakes to trick victims’ family, friends and business associates. What if they could…
Online age assurance imposes no burden beyond in-person ID checks, AVPA argues
Age assurance methods like biometric facial age estimation do not place a burden beyond that of physical ID checks, or…
Idemia ST teams with GlobalFoundries for entirely European-made smart cards
A two-year partnership is aiming to create a “100 percent” European value chain for smart card technology. GlobalFoundries is collaborating…
EdgeFace hits leaderboards with lightweight hybrid face recognition model
EdgeFace, a lightweight face recognition model optimized for mobile or edge device applications, is now state-of-the-art for all benchmarks on…
Youverse and Daon each integrate Dock for decentralized biometric ID verification
Youverse and Daon have partnered with Dock in separate deals to offer better privacy in biometric identity verification processes. Both…
NEC launches single-image multimodal biometrics
Tech giant NEC has developed a new technology that allows authentication with both face and iris biometrics with a single…
Face biometrics development targeting tricky tasks
Face biometrics are a common theme running through the most-read articles of the week on Biometric Update, along with the…
Morph attack assessment platform, image quality research results encouraging
Face morphing spoof attacks against biometric systems are particularly challenging for border systems to detect, and as morph attack detection…
Innovations in deepfake detection can’t come fast enough
From new studies of voice deepfakes to developing innovative ways to tell a fake face from the reflection in the…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection