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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shared the results of a study that compares contactless fingerprint recognition solutions to traditional contact-based alternatives. The organization noted that COVID-19 has generated more interest in contactless technology, but stressed that the study itself was carried out before the outbreak of the disease. In the study, […]
The Slandala Company has officially become an accredited Kantara Initiative assessor. The Kantara Initiative offers independent technology assessments to companies that need to comply with the strict identity guidelines established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The new certification allows Slandala Company to carry out those assessments, and attests to the expertise […]
“Since its release, CyberLink’s FaceMe has consistently achieved high rankings in leading worldwide industry assessments.” – Dr. Jau Huang, CEO, CyberLink Taiwan-based CyberLink is celebrating a strong performance in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Facial Recognition Vendor Test. The company’s FaceMe algorithm attained a ranking of 18th in the world, and noted that […]
“The results of IREX 10 confirm IDEMIA’s leadership in biometric research since the early 1980s, and the expertise of IDEMIA’s teams in this field,” – Jean-Christophe Fondeur, CTO, IDEMIA IDEMIA is once again celebrating a bit of third party validation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, this time with the announcement that it […]
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 […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling attention to potential ethical violations related to the NIST’s Tattoo Recognition Challenge. The NIST issued the Tatt-C challenge in 2014 in an effort to spur the development of automatic tattoo recognition tools, giving interested parties access to an “open tattoo database” that contained more than 15,000 images. […]
The ongoing coronavirus epidemic continues to disrupt the biometrics industry’s events calendar, with the Biometrics Institute announcing that it has postponed its US Conference. The event was originally slated to take place this month, but has now been pushed back to September 21st in the interest of mitigating the spread of COVID-19. In the meantime, […]
The iBeta Quality Assurance lab is celebrating its 20th year of successful QA operations. The Denver-based company started out as a humble video game testing facility, but has since expanded to provide reliable quality assurance for a wide variety of hardware and software applications, including biometric technologies. Most notably, iBeta was the first lab to […]
Biometrics News – Fingerprint Recognition Neurotechnology’s fingerprint algorithms have bested the competition in the NIST’s latest round of Minutiae Interoperability Exchange (MINEX III) testing. The company boasts of the most accurate (and second fastest) fingerprint solution, and topped the leaderboard in both of MINEX’s major interoperability categories. Specifically, Neurotechnology submitted the most interoperable fingerprint template […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition Slovakia-based biometrics specialist Innovatrics is celebrating an important achievement in standardized industry testing: the company has retained its position on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s FRVT 1:1 Leaderboard. First launched in early 2017, the NIST’s Face Recognition Vendor Test is designed to assess the performance of facial recognition technologies with […]
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