NADRA biometric verifications rolled back for mobile banking, seniors
Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) is asking commercial banks in the country to disable biometric user verification through…
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CyberLink climbs NIST FRVT rankings for facial recognition accuracy in wild category
CyberLink has announced that its FaceMe AI Facial Recognition Engine has scored a biometric accuracy rate of 97.02 percent in…
Stakeholders split on London police use of public facial recognition as study shows 4 in 5 false positives
The Chair of the Metropolitan Police staff association Ken March has called China’s use of public surveillance with biometric facial…
NIST and DHS Biometric Technology Center expecting significant accuracy gains
Officials from the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) expect error rates in matching faces to mugshots to be…
Researchers develop “soft biometrics” from facial expressions to detect deepfakes
Researchers at the University of California Berkeley and University of Southern California have developed a way to detect deepfake video…
Axon pledges not to add facial biometrics to body cameras on Ethics Board recommendation
Police body camera maker Axon has decided not to commercialize biometric face matching products on its body cameras, on the…
NIST validates Aratek BIONE algorithm interoperability in MINEX III test
Aratek has announced that its BIONE fingerprint algorithm has been validated to the MINEX III standard, boosting BIONE’s PIV credentials….
Facial recognition needs commercial testing
This is a guest post by Mary Probst, Commercial Markets Manager at Gemalto, a Thales company. Facial recognition technology is…
FaceTec blows away top NIST FRVT facial recognition algorithm in 3D self-testing
FaceTec‘s ZoOm 3D matching algorithm has scored in its own test an accuracy rate far better than the top algorithm…
Biometrics companies from China and Russia could be banned from NIST FRVT
Chinese media is reporting that biometrics companies from China could soon be excluded from NIST’s Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT),…
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