High traffic identification tops this week’s biometrics and digital ID news
Progress in Nigeria and in airport biometrics systems make up several of the most popular articles on Biometric Update this…
deepfakes
AI concerns prompt deepfake challenge, civil society criticism, and new DoD ethicist position
Issues in algorithmic trust and artificial intelligence ethics are motivating action by a number of institutions and businesses around the…
Deepfake voice technology claims first fraud victims
Criminal deepfake attacks have claimed their first victims, with a British energy defrauded of nearly a quarter-million dollars through a…
Nuance launches new voice biometric engine eliminating need for passphrase
Nuance Communications has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool using fourth generation deep neural networks (DNNs) and combining voice biometrics…
Researchers develop “soft biometrics” from facial expressions to detect deepfakes
Researchers at the University of California Berkeley and University of Southern California have developed a way to detect deepfake video…
Researchers develop “digital watermarks” to detect deepfakes
Researchers from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University are developing methods to identify when an image has…
Samsung researchers develop method of creating deepfakes from minimal source data
Samsung has developed an artificial intelligence system for creating deepfake video from as little source data as one image, CNET…
AI Foundation and Technical University of Munch partner to fight deepfakes
The AI Foundation and the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM’s) Visual Computing Lab have partnered to provide resources for continued…
DataGrid develops AI to generate whole-body images of nonexistent people
An artificial intelligence algorithm from Japanese company DataGrid creates high-resolution whole-body images of non-existent people. DataGrid uses a generative adversarial…
China amends law to ban deepfakes as ValidSoft exec proposes biometric detection
China has moved to ban “deepfakes,” as the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress amended the country’s Civil Code…
