Price for DNA Sequencing within our reach 5 to 10 years from now
It’s only a question of time before the price for DNA sequencing will become so cheap that it’s within our…
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.
Spy planes, sensors, biometrics detect IEDs
Spy planes, sensors and biometrics have helped curb explosives that threaten US troops in Afghanistan. There have been significant increases…
Animetrics establishes new D.C. office
Animetrics, a leading developer of 2-D to 3-D face recognition solutions, has announced that its new Washington D.C office will…
Cross Match technologies acquired by Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm focused on investments in technology and technology-enabled services business, has acquired Cross Match…
U.S. Senate to examine privacy and facial recognition technology
On Wednesday, July 18, Senator Al Franken, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law,…
Researchers develop robotic leg by studying biometric gait recognition
Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a robotic leg that perfectly mimics how a real person walks. The…
Future biometric security systems will be based on neural networks
A biometrics based security system that is able to learn and capable of cognitive processes is now within reach. Researchers…
New study shows iris recognition is not infallible
New research has shown that iris recognition is not an infallible source for biometric data as earlier believed. Just like…
Barcodes to authenticate quality of food, medicine
In 2003, researchers at the University of Guelph proposed “DNA barcoding” as a way to identify different animal, fish and…
Biometric workforce management systems kept Olympics on budget
Human Recognition Systems, a biometric identity solutions firms, recently announced that its biometric workforce management systems had been used at…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection