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Precision Biometric, Crunchfish to pilot mobile, offline retail payments in regulatory sandbox

Swedish gesture recognition and digital payments solution provider Crunchfish and one of India’s largest private banks, HDFC Bank, have been…

 

International Identity Day an opportunity for knowledge sharing for Idemia

September 16 is International Identity Day, in recognition of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 16.9. The Goal is to provide…

 

Fingerprint biometrics still reign in consumer electronics, but Android facing forward

Integration of biometric security — particularly fingerprints — into consumer electronics devices continues. And more smartphones also appear set to…

 

Beauty maybe be skin deep, but AI finds revenue on the face’s surface

A Taiwanese AI algorithm maker knows the value of the mind behind a face. The company says its software can…

 

Rank One stands out in NIST test of image quality assessment for face biometrics

A benchmark of facial image quality assessment algorithms for preventing bad input from causing problems with face biometrics systems has…

 

Looking back at spring digital ID challenge, FDIC and FinCEN find familiar shortcomings

The U.S government has released its analysis of a digital ID-proofing challenge held this spring. As befits a global and…

 

US gets involved after Ekemp tip of Liberian biometric voter card contract win

China-based biometrics firm Ekemp allegedly listed the Liberian National Elections Commission (NEC) as one of its clients for biometric voter…

 

NADRA pairs with 1Link to introduce digital payments platform for financial inclusion

Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has concluded a partnership agreement with digital payments solution provider 1Link to enable…

 

Paravision face biometrics contract with US Air Force expands

Computer vision firm Paravision has received an increase in funding for its U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)…

 

Wicket, CyberLink, Synaptics form partnerships for biometrics at the edge

Several companies have recently formed partnerships to deploy biometric and edge tools for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Verizon partnered…

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