NYU working on gesture-based authentication for growing tablet market
Napa Sae-Bae, a doctoral student at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, is working on developing gesture-based authentication for…
Commercial Applications
Biometrics are used in retail and customer-facing settings for point-of-sales services such as payments, access control in systems for purposes such as shoplifting prevention, and identification or characteristic analysis for personalization or customer insights. Access control systems are also increasingly used for automated commercial applications, such as hotel check-ins. Typically, these use palm vein, fingerprint, iris recognition, facial recognition.
Animetrics joins international biometrics association
Animetrics recently joined the International Biometrics & Identification Association (IBIA). IBIA is a trade association that promotes the effective and…
Frost & Sullivan projects biometrics revenue growth in Asia-Pacific
Market research from Frost & Sullivan suggests that the biometrics market, specifically in the government vertical within the Asia-Pacific region…
Biometric criminal record checks for U.S. job applicants increase
According to statistics from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, fingerprinting has exponentially increased as a method of checking job…
CLEAR expands biometric ID services to NYC area airport
CLEAR, a leader in secure biometric identification, announced that it has been approved to launch its expedited traveller services at…
IntegenX RapidHIT 200 Makes its Official US Launch
In 1981 Jerry Miller was arrested and charged with the kidnapping, brutal rape and robbing of a woman in Chicago…
Biometric firm Muvoni to purchase rights to record check software
Muvoni Technology Group Ltd., which operates under the Ideco brand, has entered into a purchase agreement with ZNG to purchase…
HID Global launches government solution for secure data on iOS devices
Security identity solutions company HID Global announced a solution this week for government agencies wanting sensitive data secure on Apple…
Senator Jay Rockefeller special guest at West Virginia biometrics event
The fifth annual Biometrics and Forensics Seminar and Expo event is being held in Washington, DC tomorrow at The Washington…
HRS facial recognition technology wins UK software award
Human Recognition Systems (HRS) has been awarded the Intellect Innovation Award in London at last week’s Software Satisfaction Awards 2012….
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection