New datasets for biometric research on multimodal and interoperable performance launched by NIST
NIST has launched new datasets, consisting of fingerprint, facial photographs, and iris scans, to help biometrics researchers to evaluate the…
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Genetics specialist calls for crack down on DNA databases and biometric companies enabling repression
A call to crack down on companies selling DNA-profiling technologies to customers performing human rights abuses has been made in…
Labeled Faces in the Wild creators and Anil Jain each honored for biometrics contributions
The creators of the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) facial recognition dataset have been honored by the International Conference…
CITeR Director talks research to inform dialogue on children’s biometrics and privacy
Despite the impressive advances of biometrics as a scientific field over recent years, very little is known about identifying children…
Human body bioacoustics deliver 97 percent biometric accuracy, researchers say
Researchers from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in South Korea claim to have figured out how to accurately…
Researcher discusses facts related to media narratives about facial recognition ‘bias’
“Biometric performance is nuanced and cannot be reduced to generalizations like ‘bias’,” reads a LinkedIn article by Yevgeniy Sirotin, PhD,…
UK academics introduce improved neural network for highly precise facial recognition
Researchers from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing have been working on a more precise…
Researchers develop new method for ensuring quality in voice biometrics data collection
A new artificial intelligence-based method for collecting voice biometrics by ensuring the quality of automatic voice recordings has been developed…
EAB awards three researchers for contributions to fingerprint and facial biometrics
University of Ljubljana researcher Dr. Klemen Grm has won the first EAB Max Snijder Award for his research on processing…
ICAO denies alleged privacy flaw in biometric passports
A group of researchers from the University of Luxemburg may have detected a critical security flaw in the International Civil…
