Researcher uses 3D-printed fingerprint to spoof biometric authentication
Bypassing biometric authentication was not much of a challenge for hackers at this year’s Def Con virtual hacking conference, Infosecurity…
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trinamiX’s beam profile analysis boosts biometric facial recognition on mobile devices
Since February, German BASF subsidiary trinamiX has been part of Qualcomm’s software accelerator program, actively developing its beam profile analysis technology…
Facial biometrics could help stop or convict some serial killers: researchers
In a development as grim as any aspect of biometrics, researchers believe they have found a way to potentially link…
A new government ID tool — comedy. Researchers have a laughter biometric recognition algorithm
Now it is your laughter that can give you away. A Nigerian research team say they have been able to…
Facial expression recognition’s bias problem is glaring
No doubt having watched the attention being paid to racial bias in biometric facial recognition, a group of researchers looked…
Hikvision claims to have phased out minority recognition in biometric surveillance software
Chinese company Hikvision has confirmed offering minority recognition software based on face biometrics at a given point, but says the…
Stop waiting for society to wake up on biometrics. Here’s a plan to build trust
A new research paper finds that the capabilities of facial recognition and other biometric systems have vastly outpaced how the…
Mobile biometrics market to surpass $15.6B by 2024, major sensor growth forecast
Market research companies analyze and predict major market growth for mobile biometrics, m-commerce, biometrics and printed and flexible sensors over…
Biometrics tech far, far ahead of public understanding—intelligence insider
In the same week that an analyst from a secretive government contractor warned that fear is informing debate about biometrics,…
Dutch research center says new vein biometrics sensor cannot be spoofed
Netherlands-based independent R&D lab Holst Center has developed an organic near-infrared large-area image sensor for biometric vein pattern detection to…
