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Face biometrics massive potential and remaining challenges in the spotlight

The top news of the week in biometrics and digital ID involves public companies positioning themselves for gains, others reporting growth, and impressive forecasts. As appropriate for the week of IFPC, facial recognition is involved in most of them ... Read the full report here.
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Weekend Reading

Onfido and Trueface work to remove bias from facial recognition technologies

Onfido and Trueface held two separate webinars at the International Face Performance Conference (IFPC) on Thursday, focusing on reducing bias...

Investigations identify the extent – and limitations – of Semlex’s political networks in Africa

The new offices for Semlex Côte d’Ivoire in the Cocody district of the commercial capital Abidjan Scrutiny of biometric credentials...

Biometrics stocks update: NEC positioning, SuperCom warning and a wild ride for BrainChip

Three NEC divisions have made announcements related to biometrics and digital identity, while SuperCom has issued notification about a stock-price...

Aware reports strong positioning in government biometrics market, financial fallout from COVID-19

Aware earned $2.5 million in revenue in the third quarter of its fiscal 2020, up sequentially on higher biometric software...

WHOOP health biometrics draw $100 million Series E financing round

Biometric fitness tracker company WHOOP announced a $100 million Series E financing round led by IVP, Yahoo! Sports reports. The...

Onfido sees 82 percent sales growth of biometric identity verification solutions in third quarter of 2020

Onfido announced today an 82 percent global sales growth for its biometric digital identity verification software during the most recent...

AnyVision plans to scale biometrics business with appointment of new CEO

AnyVision has a new CEO, with Avi Golan appointed to lead the company’s biometrics and visual AI business. Co-founder and...

Idemia and AU10TIX each appoint C-level executives

Biometrics giant Idemia and digital identity authentication provider AU10TIX have each welcomed a new leader to their C-suites, with the...

Biometrics tenders issued in India for railway station security, govt employee management

Facial recognition technology is being implemented on the CCTV network of Bangalore City’s rail system, and will be stood up...

Australia calls for bids on biometric platform for passenger declarations, visas

Australia’s Home Affairs Department has launched a call to tender for the installation of a biometric technology system that will...

Idiap receives accreditation to grant biometrics certificates for Android

Idiap’s Swiss Center for Biometrics Research and Testing has received accreditation to conduct the evaluation required by Android for biometric...

IDmission biometrics pass iBeta testing for Level 2 presentation attack detection standards

IDmission’s facial recognition technology has been declared Level 2 ISO/IEC 30107-3 Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) compliant by iBeta Quality Assurance,...

Biometrics experts discuss facial recognition research on demographic effects and bias

Many if not all commercial facial recognition algorithms seem to share common roots that make them susceptible to demographic performance...

ID4Africa ‘Marathon of Innovations’ to highlight biometrics and digital ID developments

ID4Africa has announced an upcoming ‘Marathon of Innovations’ in digital identity and biometrics, which will be presented December 8 to 10...

Research ethics in machine vision need some attention

Border biometrics challenges discussed at NIST conference

Implications of New York’s SHIELD Act on biometric privacy

Well-intentioned government privacy wonks need assertive attitude to win

A 4-step plan to building trust in AI. The fourth will be a hard pill to swallow

Substantial improvements to biometric spoof attack detection possible in short term

If you’re going to reject biometric IDs, at least clean up verification — UK consultant

Face morphing threat to biometric identity credentials’ trustworthiness a growing problem

Infineon, pmd expect new depth sensor will take flight with rest of 3D image sensor market

New biometrics standards for face-aware capture and image quality should help operational accuracy

Biometrics White Papers

Face recognition and the future air travel experience

Airports uniquely demand both a very high passenger throughput and a very high degree of security underpinned by the positive...

Consumer versus enterprise-grade biometrics

Many enterprises rely on consumer-grade deployments to enable their customers to bypass the normal login process in the company’s mobile...

Remote onboarding: How banks are changing the game

The number of new in-branch account openings was already on a sharp decline before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the shift...

The important role of liveness detection in face biometric authentication

In order for face biometrics to truly gain mainstream adoption as a better mode of authentication, it is essential to...

Events and Webinars

Tech in Gov 2020

November 3, 2020 - November 4, 2020

Tech in Gov 2020 Online November 3 – 4, 2020 Tech in Gov 2020 brings together a high-level, public sector...

22nd SmartCards Expo

November 3, 2020 - November 5, 2020

SmartCards Expo Online November 3-5, 2020 SmartCards Expo is coming back in its digital version! We are introducing SmartCards ONLINE Expo to help...

World AI Show – India

November 4, 2020 - November 4, 2020

World AI Show – India Online November 4, 2020 World AI Show – India a virtual convening of some of...

ID4Africa Livecast – Spotlight on Tanzania’s Identity Ecosystem

November 5, 2020 - November 5, 2020

ID4Africa Livecast – Spotlight on Tanzania’s Identity Ecosystem Online November 5, 2020 13:30 – 15:30 CET/Paris time Join ID4Africa for...

Authenticate 2020

November 9, 2020 - November 20, 2020

authenticate 2020 Online November 9 – 20, 2020 Authenticate is the first conference dedicated to the who, what, why and...

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