Age assurance tech is ready now, and international standards are on their way
The Global Age Assurance Standards Summit has wrapped up, culminating in a set of assertions, a seven-point call-to-action and four…
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.
NIST finds biometric age estimation effective in first benchmark, coming soon
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology presented a preview of its assessment of facial age estimation with selfie…
Biometric face image quality standard draft released along with assessment tool
The Open Source Face Image Quality (OFIQ) assessment software library and the Draft International Standard it is a reference implementation…
Pindrop, Veridas raise biometric defenses against voice fraud
Pindrop has won the Voice Cloning Challenge run by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with three smaller organizations….
Hailo integrates Paravision facial recognition software for edge biometric identification
Paravision has partnered with Hailo to incorporate their advanced facial recognition technology into specialized devices, such as the Hailo-8 AI…
Age assurance standards progress towards consensus, away from ‘biometrics’
Age assurance processes like facial age estimation do not require the isolation and processing of personal identifiers, unlike biometric identification….
EU-US to continue aligning digital identity standards
The United States and the European Union are continuing to work on making technical standards for digital identity compatible. Following…
Digital ID at center of Europe’s data sharing changes: report
As the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet inches closer to reality, organizations are trying to grasp how the project and…
GSI Technology rolls out servers for facial recognition and re-identification
GSI Technology has released Leda-E and Leda-S for the processing of huge datasets and high-performance computation in areas like facial…
OpenAI says its voice cloning tool is too effective for public release
In the original story of the genie in a bottle from One Thousand and One Nights, the genie threatens to…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection