American researchers probe where biometric bias comes in and how to measure it
A pair of papers on why biometric systems are so often found to be less effective with some demographic groups…
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Digital identity verification spending to pass $20B by 2027, but security challenges remain
Businesses around the world are spending $11.6 billion on digital identity verification this year, and that amount will nearly double…
Some people really do have doppelgangers and that could be a biometric problem
If everyone really does have an unrelated twin somewhere on the planet, that is bad news for facial recognition-based security…
Deep-learning advance improves facial recognition for people wearing veils
A team of researchers spanning Asia, Europe and U.S. universities say they used a convolutional neural network to extract characteristics…
Dividing face images makes for better biometric presentation attack detection
Seeing the big picture is useful in completing some tasks, but it introduces extraneous details that can confuse matters on…
Lossy image compression negatively affects facial recognition algorithms, research shows
Experimental research by a team from the Department of Computer Science in the University of Durham, UK, demonstrates that image…
Idiap researchers propose biometric fairness metrics to decouple bias from accuracy
Several new measures for quantifying demographic differentials, or bias, in biometric identity verification systems are suggested in a paper which…
Facial recognition getting better at handling modest angles and big smiles
The state of the art of facial recognition has improved over recent years to the point of handling certain kinds…
Facial recognition might work better with a dedicated capture device, like all other biometrics
Facial recognition would probably work better with images taken from a dedicated device, rather than one designed to capture good…
New unsupervised AI method performs multimodal emotion recognition
Researchers from the University of Trento and Eurecat Centre Tecnològic have developed a new artificial intelligence method capable of performing…
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