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BioConnect is launching a new BioConnect Cares initiative to help customers and partners get set up with contactless biometric security. The initiative will make the company’s current facial recognition products available for free, or at a steeply discounted price. The offer will last until June 30th, and is being made in response to COVID-19. The […]
Suprema is celebrating its 20th year of operations. The company has grown at a CAGR of 20 percent since it was founded in 2000, and now boasts a sales network that spans across 140 countries and more than 1 billion users. According to Suprema, 16 percent of its yearly sales are invested in research and […]
Covington & Burling has completed its audit of the Israeli facial recognition specialist AnyVision. The audit was carried out at the request of Microsoft in an effort to determine whether or not AnyVision’s technology was being used in a mass surveillance scheme of Palestinians in the West Bank, as had been alleged in a series […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to connect its facial recognition program with a gang intelligence app that was developed by a district attorney’s office in Pennsylvania in an effort to improve data collection and coordination. As NextGov reports, the Gang Intelligence Application (GIA) — developed by the Office of the District Attorney of […]
China is expanding the scope of its biometric network in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Guangzhou Public Transportation Group is now using biometric tablets to check the temperature (and the identity) of every passenger who boards one of the city’s buses. The tablets themselves are being installed next to the driver’s seat on the […]
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has dramatically accelerated the migration to remote work across all business sectors, giving rise to fraud threats and digital identity needs on an unprecedented scale. This is especially true in the realm of telemedicine. That’s why Jumio announced it is helping keep the economy running by offering its award winning identity […]
The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new system to manage biometric records, and is seeking to get it exempt from the Privacy Act. In a posting on the Federal Register, the DHS explained that the proposed “Department of Homeland Security/ALL-043 Enterprise Biometric Administrative Records (EBAR) System of Records (SOR)” will allow it […]
Rank One is boasting about its strong performance in the latest round of NIST testing. The company’s ROC SDK v1.20 was one of the most accurate algorithms tested in the most recent Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:N identification report, which evaluates a solution’s ability to match an image of an unknown person’s face to […]
Paravision is celebrating its strong performance in the NIST’s latest Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 1:N Identification report. The 1:N test evaluates facial recognition algorithms based on their ability to match an unknown face to a known identity. This time around, Paravision’s solution was measured against more than 200 facial recognition algorithms from 60 different […]
A new report from Grand View Research predicts that the overall image recognition market will jump to $109.4 billion between 2020 and 2027. That figure represents a CAGR of 18.8 percent for the entire forecast period. The vast image recognition market includes everything from surveillance and medical imaging to the driver assist systems in smart […]
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