Sogou biometric facial recognition algorithm hits high score in MegaFace Challenge
The MegaFace Challenge, billed as the world’s first large-scale facial recognition algorithm competition, has announced its latest results with 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.
SureID and Robbie.AI partner to develop nationwide biometric capture system for consumer initiatives
SureID has reached a partnership agreement with artificial intelligence facial recognition and emotion recognition company Robbie.AI to work together on…
DHS issues call for 2019 Biometric Technology Rally participants
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has issued its call for submissions to the 2019…
Google adds enhanced facial analysis capabilities to developer platform
Developing Android apps with facial detection may soon be easier, as Google is launching a new feature called Face Contours…
Syntiant raises $25 million in Series B funding to develop speech processors for edge devices
Artificial intelligence semiconductor company Syntiant Corp. announced that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding to support its…
Mastek wins UK Home Office Biometrics Programme contract
Mastek has been awarded a contract to provide strategic application development and support capability for the UK Home Office Biometrics…
Zwipe and Tappy Technologies to develop wearable biometric payment devices
Zwipe and wearables technology company Tappy Technologies today announced a partnership to jointly develop and launch biometrics-enabled wearable payment, access…
New Samsung patent describes in-display fingerprint sensor with full screen scan capabilities
A Samsung patent filed with the USPTO and WIPO for a ‘Method for acquiring biometric information and electronic device supporting…
New NXP developer tools enable machine learning biometrics on edge devices
NXP Semiconductors has launched an edge intelligence software environment for edge node developers to build machine learning applications in the…
NEC and Arm developing secure IoT solutions for smart cities
NEC and Arm Limited announced a collaboration to drive the development of secure IoT solutions for smart cities using artificial…
