China, Russia, India: facial recognition surveillance projects far from the capitals
Unmanned police surveillance vehicles patrol a city in Xinjiang, a Russian city in the Arctic Circle deploys a powerful facial…
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.
Biometrics providers face up to misconceptions, reputational harms and transparency barriers
Biometrics’ growth and maturation comes with reassessments and growing pains, as seen in the top headlines of the week on…
New adversarial mask designs evade facial recognition systems
Fabric face masks covering the nose and mouth and printed with adversarial patterns evade facial recognition systems more than 96…
Predictably low trust by Black Americans in facial recognition in new poll
Every answer in a new Pew Research Center survey about police use of facial recognition makes it clear that Black…
London police paying public to test live facial recognition during live operation
London Metropolitan Police have been paying members of the public £50 (US$59) to take part in live facial recognition testing…
Vision-Box launches mobile biometric workstation for flexible airport deployment
A new mobile security gateway device has been unveiled by Vision-Box to help airports perform biometric passenger screening for efficient…
Facial blindness is a rare syndrome in humans, but very common among organizations
By Moshe Ofry, VP Engineering, Oosto Prosopagnosia has become famous recently following Brad Pitt’s confession that he suffers from the…
Beijing bums out billions of Chinese game-playing kids: Restrictions not going away
A “misunderstanding” about gaming restrictions in China was righted this week. Somehow, people got the impression that the government was…
With long road ahead experts suggest EU AI Act could stifle or enable biometrics adoption
The European Union’s AI Act could dramatically increase the compliance burden on biometrics developers even before their systems reach the…
US is decades from completing biometric exit scans, but Customs plays by its own rules
Biometric systems in the U.S. federal government made news this month and as often is the case at that level,…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
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- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection