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Infineon and Qualcomm have teamed up to develop a reference design for a new 3D authentication system. The system is built with Infineon’s REAL3 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor, and is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Mobile Platform. The news comes shortly after the two companies unveiled a new 3D image sensor with VGA resolution […]
The facial recognition specialist Alcatraz AI is bringing a new access control solution to the upcoming ISC West event in Las Vegas. The 3D Facial Authentication Platform has been cheekily dubbed the Rock, and will be on display at booth #13127. While the eponymous prison was built to keep people in, the new facial recognition […]
What We Got Our Hands On: ZoOm is a contactless, AI-driven, 100-percent software authentication solution based on 3D face biometrics captured via standard front-facing selfie cameras and webcams. ZoOm can be used for digital and physical access applications, promising 10-second enrollment and 2-second authentication times. It can be employed for user onboarding, user authentication, liveness […]
Fingerprint scanning is now a familiar and even mainstream concept among consumers today, thanks largely to the mobile biometrics revolution, which has seen the fingerprint sensor emerge as a standard feature on smartphones over the past several years. That trend is generally thought to have been catalyzed by Apple, which made fingerprint authentication a flagship […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition California-based defense contractor and facial recognition specialist StereoVision Imaging (“SVI”) has announced the issuance of eight continuation patents for its technological portfolio. In a statement, the company said it is “significantly growing its U.S. and international patent portfolio” pertaining to Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR technology. This is SVI’s […]
There’s a New Sheriff in Town Standardized Anti-spoof Testing Brings Law and Order to the ‘Wild West’ Standardized biometric presentation attack detection (PAD) testing is finally here, bringing accountability to the biometrics industry, itself charged with providing trust in cyberspace. Over the past five years, the biometrics industry has experienced massive growth thanks to the […]
A team of Tencent researchers has managed to get past Face ID’s liveness detection with a pair of glasses and some tape. To execute the attack, the researchers placed a strip of black tape on each lens. The tape mimics the outline of the eye, while a dot of white tape in the center imitates […]
This week’s most popular biometrics news articles on FindBiometrics once again covered a pretty broad range of topics, but as is often the case, it’s possible to discern one or two trends in all the industry activity. Face biometrics, for example, enjoyed a particularly high profile this week. Researchers announced a cutting-edge new face scanning […]
With the Independence Day celebrations, it’s been a busy week for a lot of people. So it’s little wonder that some of FindBiometrics’ top articles for this week have been especially attention-grabbing, with visitors reading up on some cutting-edge biometrics technology. FaceTec, for example, took a couple of headlines thanks to its groundbreaking 3D facial […]
Biometric face authentication specialist FaceTec recently announced a major achievement: after undergoing a rigorous and transparent in-house benchmarking process, the company declared its ZoOm 3D FaceMap technology is “the best performing 1:1 face matching algorithm in history.” Following a methodology detailed in a comprehensive white paper, the evaluation revealed a real-world false acceptance rate (FAR) […]
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