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Japanese tech giant NEC Corporation has announced that it has developed a biometric authentication device that is capable of recognizing individuals even if their faces are partially obscured by a mask or other covering. This development comes at a time when a growing number of people around the world have resorted to wearing face masks […]
Japanese tech giant NEC Corporation has announced the appointment of Aalok Kumar as its new President and CEO of NEC Technologies India. Kumar previously served as the Senior Vice President of McKinsey & Company, and in a career spanning more than 26 years he has gained extensive experience working across the APAC and EMEA regions […]
NEC has announced some changes to its board-level leadership. Jun Ohta, the CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMBC) is joining the Board of Directors, where he will replace Takeshi Kunibe. Ohta made his career at SMBC, having first joined the company in 1982, and being named its Director in 2014. He attained his […]
The NEC Corporation is making a few changes in the executive suite with a series of new appointments to senior level positions. All of the changes will be effective as of April 1, and were approved by the company’s Board of Directors on January 29. The new appointees include five new Senior Vice Presidents, all […]
NEC Technologies India — a subsidiary of Japanese tech giant NEC Corporation — has been awarded a contract from the Airports Authority of India to supply biometric technology at four airports around the country for the Digi Yatra project. The biometric tech will be launched by NEC in phases before the end of 2020 at […]
NEC Technologies India will be outfitting the Kerala State Police with a new automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS). The new tech is being rolled out through a partnership with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), and will be available to law enforcement officers at more than 600 venues across the state. C-DAC […]
“…at Singapore FinTech Festival 2018, the focus will be on NEC’s financial services solutions.” NEC has announced that it’s a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Singapore FinTech Festival, and that it’s going to showcase its technology at the event. It’s not a huge surprise, given NEC’s growing activity in the city-state. Earlier this year, NEC completed […]
“In addition to showcasing this technology, NEC will also raise its profile at Connect:ID with multiple speaking engagements for executives from its Advanced Recognition Systems unit. “ NEC will demo its Enterprise Video Analytics solution at this week’s Connect:ID exhibition, the company has announced. The NEC EVA solution essentially applies AI-driven machine learning to video […]
“NEC’s solution attained a matching accuracy of 99.33 percent for near-infrared images, with the company asserting in a statement that its solution demonstrated ‘highly precise feature extraction, matching and advanced noise reduction.’” NEC technology attained the highest accuracy ranking in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s recent Iris Exchange (IREX) IX evaluations, the company […]
“The discussion in Biometric Governments in Practice helped set the bar for industry dialogue moving forward, not just in government sector identity management, but the industry at large in terms of privacy, education, and the shift toward convenient user experience as a market driver.” Last Wednesday FindBiometrics brought Government Applications Month to a close with […]
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