Biometric templates can be inverted for attacks, but also protected with hashing
A pair of papers from the Idiap Research Institute’s Biometrics Security and Privacy Group show the potential vulnerability of biometric…
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Global ID claims 2 patents for vein biometrics systems, ramps up production capacity
Biometrics startup Global ID has been awarded a pair of patents for finger-vein authentication systems and methods for enterprise access…
Some progress on protecting biometric templates, evaluating methods
As biometric templates are more widely enrolled, stored and used, and the methods used to attack the privacy of people…
Biometrics research community convenes in Switzerland to tackle top technical challenges
Biometrics researchers have an array of ideas for technologies, metrics and architectures to address the most serious threats to biometric…
Biometric anti-spoofing handbook updated with liveness competitions, legislative impact
The Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing has been updated, with the third edition published by Springer to provide comprehensive and authoritative…
EU program creates criminal network investigation platform with Phonexia voice biometrics
European Union research project ‘ROXANNE’ has completed its development of a system that includes voice biometrics for law enforcement agencies…
Program nearly set for biometrics workshop from EAB, CITeR and Idiap in April
A joint biometrics workshop has been announced for later this year by the European Association for Biometrics and America’s Center…
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 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…
