Putting the smudginess of old VHS movies to use training facial recognition algorithms
Anyone who has learned to fly a plane knows that good pilots are not made in orderly classrooms. They are…
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Morphing attack detection for face biometric spoofs needs more generalization, datasets
Deepfakes may get more press, but face morphing could be the more pressing security concern for border control systems using…
Biometrics pioneer Anil Jain honored with endowment
A $1 million endowed professorship at Michigan State University has been named in honor of Anil and Nandita Jain. Anil…
Deepfake detection approaches from heart rate to lightweight considered in EAB workshop
Deepfake detection was one of the main topics investigated in the recent workshop from the European Association for Biometrics on…
NIST seeks feedback on measurement of biometric bias
Bias in face biometrics has decreased as algorithm developers focus their efforts, according to the latest test results from the…
Facial recognition algorithms need to be protected now against master face attacks – researchers
Biometrics researchers say master face attacks pose “a severe security threat” for under-protected facial recognition algorithms. Four IEEE scientists studied…
Award for biometrics under tortuous conditions goes to West Virginia researcher
The U.S. government has awarded a $1.1 million contract to develop biometric facial biometrics systems capable of being accurate over…
Manipulated faces threaten trust in remote biometrics, new legal battlegrounds
The European Association for Biometrics addressed different potential harms related to face biometrics and technologies for digital manipulation of faces…
New adversarial mask designs evade facial recognition systems
Fabric face masks covering the nose and mouth and printed with adversarial patterns evade facial recognition systems more than 96…
2 big dates coming up fast for international biometrics community
Organizers of this fall’s International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group has issued a call for papers, with submissions…
