Can biometric wearables capitalize on worries over machine vision for COVID-19 detection?
Just as concerns and skepticism grow about systems using facial recognition as a tool to help spot fevers in a…
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Yoti reports progress in age verification without ID document
Yoti has announced a breakthrough in its anonymous age verification, which enables age checks without referring to an identity document….
EAB Online Seminar — the detection of real and synthetic ghosts
EAB Online Seminar — the detection of real and synthetic ghosts Online November 17, 2020, 12:30pm (GMT+1) This European Association…
Onfido’s use of biometric data for bias research meets legal requirements — ICO report
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has released the report of regulatory sandbox test carried out with Onfido, which concluded…
U.S. Army patents zero-light 3D face biometric technology
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has patented a way to create detailed, simulated 3D images even in pitch darkness. The…
Sogou wins facial landmark localization challenge at ICPR 2020
Chinese search engine company Sogou has taken first place ranking in a facial landmark localization challenge at the 25th International…
Fitness-tracker biometrics predict COVID-19 better than temps
Temperature checks, increasingly disparaged as COVID theater, can be outperformed as an illness indicator by fitness-tracker biometrics and self-reported symptoms,…
Computer vision modelers take too much for granted. Data sets hold bias surprises
A pair of U.S. researchers say unsupervised computer vision models used in biometrics and other applications can learn nasty social…
Protection from biometric spoof attacks requires emerging technologies and standards adherence
Advanced biometric technologies and standards are necessary to build adequate presentation attack detection (PAD) into border control systems, Norwegian Biometrics…
Can you see what I hear? New ear biometrics technique has a high accuracy rate
There are 11 named features of the typical human ear. Every one of them is visible when most people wear…
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