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Academic researchers develop method for improving facial recognition accuracy with poor image quality

Research by psychologists from the UK and Australia suggests that the accuracy of facial recognition using images from poor quality…

 

Afghanistan to procure 24,000 biometric units to identify voters in upcoming elections

Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) has reached an agreement to use biometric systems to ensure the legitimacy of upcoming elections,…

 

Paytm testing facial recognition tool to unlock payments application

Indian e-commerce payment system and digital wallet company Paytm is looking at facial recognition technology to enable digital payments, the…

 

Kenyan police launch facial recognition on urban CCTV network

Kenya’s National Police Service (NPS) has launched a facial recognition system for CCTV cameras installed along major roads and highways…

 

StoneLock unveils new biometric enterprise access control solution at GSX

StoneLock introduced the StoneLock GO edge reader today at Global Security Exchange in Las Vegas. The StoneLock GO combined with…

 

Report warns of smart home tech impact on children’s privacy

A UK academic researching the impact of big data and artificial intelligence on family life has issued a call for…

 

Biometrics play significant role in new US Army intelligence doctrine

Biometrics Enabled Intelligence (BEI) is playing a larger and essential role in U.S. Army intelligence, as described in the latest…

 

FPC tech deployed for biometric authentication in new Xiaomi device

The new Xiaomi 8 Youth mobile device comes equipped with Fingerprint Cards’ sensor FPC1291, according to a recent announcement from…

 

SmartMetric to release dual purpose cybersecurity and access ID biometric card

SmartMetric reports it is on-track to complete production of its dual purpose cybersecurity and access ID biometric card by the…

 

NEC facial recognition tech helped secure the 18th Asian Games

NEC has revealed that it provided a facial recognition system and a behavior detection system for the 18th Asian Games…

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