Smart home market embracing edge biometrics for improved security and privacy
Smart home systems, equipped with biometric recognition capabilities, are generating a substantial amount of data through their IoT devices, typically…
Facial Recognition
A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a two- or three-dimensional digital image or a frame from a video source. It is typically used in security systems alone or in combination with other factors. Can also be used to perform liveness detection. Find facial recognition solutions here.
EU’s largest public transport security project with Herta biometrics nears final stage
Europe has a plan to prevent terrorist attacks on public transportation with video analytics algorithms, possibly but not necessarily including…
Seeing and hearing a face – a different kind of multi-modal authentication
A UK yearling startup says it has put a fused voice and face biometric algorithm in the field, in banks….
Short seller sounds alarm on SenseTime revenues, citing smart city decline and fraud
SenseTime is defending itself from accusation of fabricating revenue, or at least a lack of risk management, by short seller…
Russia considers multiplying the size of its face surveillance network
There is a report out of Latvia that Russian officials want to again expand their national facial recognition infrastructure. According…
Facial recognition by police could come to Ireland faster after Dublin riots
The politics of police facial recognition systems are changing in favor of deployment in Ireland after last week’s riot in…
Clearview AI tops 40 billion reference images in facial recognition database
Clearview AI’s reference database for facial recognition searches has surpassed 40 billion images, double its volume of just 20 months…
RecFaces opens office in Delhi and has plans for a biometrics training facility
The facial recognition market in India is currently hotter than a ghost pepper vindaloo. Expanding Dubai firm RecFaces is set…
Local cloud vies for role in India’s facial recognition surveillance systems
In recent years, both the private and public sectors in India have increasingly adopted facial recognition systems to transform video…
Open source toolchain can generate ‘digital twin’ avatar
FaceChain, a program that generates “digital twin” lookalikes of a given user, has been introduced with potential use cases in…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection