Circular AI firing squad: Fighting AI bias with fake faces may pose real privacy risks
The problems with fake faces are so complex that some solutions just create more problems. Researchers in Switzerland, for example,…
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Paravision, Trust Stamp, Advance.AI add new talent
A number of companies in the biometrics and digital ID space announce the appointment of new talent this week. Paravision…
Swiss researchers hunt for contactless palm vein biometric scanners for hospitals
Swiss entrepreneurs and researchers have announced an effort to create a mobile contactless scanner that reads hand veins as a…
Idiap researchers develop vein biometric template protection approach with biohashing
A pair of methods for protecting vein biometrics templates from vulnerability to theft or leakage without degrading recognition performance have…
Practical problems in biometric fairness, coming ISO standard explored in EAB webinar
New wrinkles to the problem of biometric bias, the development of standards for assessing it, and strategies for assessing and…
New airport biometrics partnerships, tips, update and forecasts unveiled
Stakeholders are hoping that investments in contactless airport systems can revive the industry’s fortunes, and plans are being carried out…
Biometrics providers FaceTec and ImageWare announce appointments, Idiap hiring researchers
The Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland is looking to fill several senior researcher positions for cross-disciplinary projects, having grown and…
Uniphore to address issues in biometrics with WEF community and new partnerships
Uniphore has joined the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Innovators Community and announced a pair of partnerships to contribute to…
Biometric PAD standards in competition against spoof attacks, not each other: Stephanie Schuckers
Presentation attack detection (PAD) technology is increasingly important in biometric systems, and increasingly implemented. The technology seems to remain the…
Idiap researchers propose metric for measuring biometrics fairness
A pair of researchers from the Idiap Research Institute have developed a metric to use in assessing the fairness of biometric…
