http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (Phys.org) —Researchers from the University of South Carolina and Duke are proposing a "visual fingerprint" app that can be used with smartphones and wearable camera displays such as Google Glass. Their paper, "Recognizing Humans without Face Recognition," explored techniques that can jointly leverage camera-enabled glasses, an offering that is still in the wings, and phones, to pick out any individual based on what the person is wearing. The team behind the InSight project developed and tested a prototype system that can pick out people by their clothes and other accessories. Once identified, the person's name would be displayed on the headset. http://phys.org/news282136149.html Technology Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:09:25 EST news282136149 (Phys.org)—People generally like the idea of facial recognition technology, if they are asked about it in the context of identifying dangerous killers on the loose and people out to spread mayhem. People generally hate the idea of facial recognition technology in the context of their own faces showing up without their permission on social networking sites or on databases designed to boost a company's sales. As law-enforcement and commercial companies explore facial recognition technologies, privacy groups are throwing up red flags. http://phys.org/news278009373.html Technology Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:49:46 EST news278009373 (Phys.org)—Intel wants you to know that voice, face and gesture control will become a familiar feature in computers. The time for a new kind of notebook world is now, for Intel, and computing facets including touch, voice, and visual are seated under Intel's umbrella term, Perceptual Computing. Intel is promoting this idea as the way people will interact with their computers, and the accent is on the word interact. The keyboard and mouse retreat in the background yielding to gestures and face and speech recognition. http://phys.org/news277363918.html Technology Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:32:27 EST news277363918 Chinese high-tech companies have showcased some of the most eye-popping gear at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, bidding to reverse their lack of global brand recognition. http://phys.org/news277142529.html Electronics Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:02:17 EST news277142529 A Silicon Valley executive whose previous venture was synonymous with Internet piracy has found a way to play nice with Hollywood. BitTorrent Inc. co-founder Ashwin Navin is working with television networks and consumer electronics companies on a new technology called Samba that aims to deliver enhanced viewing on Internet-connected "smart TVs." http://phys.org/news275838978.html Technology Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:50:02 EST news275838978 Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people by their faces or other physical features finally is gaining traction, to the dismay of privacy advocates. http://phys.org/news267452133.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:15:50 EST news267452133 Ear­lier this month, the FBI began rolling out a $1 bil­lion update to the national fin­ger­printing data­base. Facial-​​recognition sys­tems, DNA analysis, voice iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and iris scan­ning will all con­tribute to the government's arsenal of Next Gen­er­a­tion Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion (NGI) data. We asked Ray­mond Fu, a new assis­tant pro­fessor with joint appoint­ments in the Col­lege of Engi­neering and the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence, to explain the sci­ence behind one of these new tech­nolo­gies: facial-​​recognition software. http://phys.org/news267436375.html Technology Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:53:03 EST news267436375 A biometric security system based on how a user moves their eyes is being developed by technologists in Finland. Writing in the International Journal of Biometrics, the team explains how a person's saccades, their tiny, but rapid, involuntary eye movements, can be measured using a video camera. The pattern of saccades is as unique as an iris or fingerprint scan but easier to record and so could provide an alternative secure biometric identification technology. http://phys.org/news265444932.html Technology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:42:55 EST news265444932 Torrential rapids, plunging mud holes and soaring hurdles: in the outdoor competitions at the Olympic Games, athletes pushed themselves to the limit. But it's hard to depict this in pictures alone. This is why researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS created an intelligent camera that instantly delivers additional metadata, such as acceleration, temperature or heart rate. The new INCA can be seen at the IBC trade show in Amsterdam from September 7 - 11 (Hall 8, Booth B80). http://phys.org/news264931853.html Technology Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:11:01 EST news264931853 Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have launched a fun new smartphone app that lets users interact with and control their own emotional pet robot, using ideas taken from a recent European robotics research project called LIREC. http://phys.org/news262435368.html Electronics Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:43:20 EST news262435368 Samsung launched its Galaxy S III smartphone in the United States Thursday after fending off a legal challenge from rival Apple, which claimed it infringed on iPhone technology. http://phys.org/news259496597.html Electronics Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:40:01 EST news259496597 Verizon has been rolling out its 4G coverage to 195 markets, and the company has given me two phones to review that take good advantage of 4G's much faster speeds. http://phys.org/news249914782.html Electronics Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:10:01 EST news249914782 Honda's human-shaped robot can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot and pour a drink. Some of its technology may even be used to help out with clean-up operations at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. http://phys.org/news239945798.html Electronics Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:37:01 EST news239945798 UWA Institute of Agriculture has discovered that sheep, despite having a cultural reputation for being unintelligent, have excellent memories. http://phys.org/news236858602.html Biology Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:03:33 EST news236858602 The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media have said. http://phys.org/news218813355.html Technology Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:10:03 EST news218813355 (PhysOrg.com) -- The long-time practice of using police facial sketches to nab criminals has been, at best, an inexact art. But the process may soon be a little more exact thanks to the work of some Michigan State University researchers. http://phys.org/news218393332.html Technology Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:49:27 EST news218393332 Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed software for mobile phones that can track your facial features in real-time. Eventually it will be able to tell who the user is, where they are looking and even how they are feeling. http://phys.org/news207310154.html Technology Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:09:45 EST news207310154 Biometric systems -- designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or face recognition -- are "inherently fallible," says a new report by the National Research Council, and no single trait has been identified that is stable and distinctive across all groups. To strengthen the science and improve system effectiveness, additional research is needed at virtually all levels of design and operation. http://phys.org/news204546584.html Technology Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:29:56 EST news204546584 A specific area in our brains is responsible for processing information about human and animal faces, both how we recognize them and how we interpret facial expressions. Now, Tel Aviv University research is exploring what makes this highly specialized part of the brain unique, a first step to finding practical applications for that information. http://phys.org/news199553463.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:50:01 EST news199553463 Digital advertising billboards being trialled in Japan are fitted with cameras that read the gender and age group of people looking at them to tailor their commercial messages. http://phys.org/news198392688.html Technology Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:05:12 EST news198392688 Gay men can recall familiar faces faster and more accurately than their heterosexual counterparts because, like women, they use both sides of their brains, according to a new study by York University researchers. http://phys.org/news196411040.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:37:44 EST news196411040 William Lohry took a seat before a projector-camera combination and offered his best smile. http://phys.org/news195848668.html Technology Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:24:49 EST news195848668 Like a motorist who knows that the "check engine" light indicates something important but ill-defined is happening, neuroscientists have relied heavily on an incompletely understood technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging to show them what the brain is doing when people respond to different stimuli. The non-invasive technology offers a window into the physiology of human cognition and emotion, but — without a satisfying explanation of how some common fMRI signals are produced — the ability of researchers to draw conclusions has been limited. http://phys.org/news193218023.html Medicine & Health Sun, 16 May 2010 13:00:01 EST news193218023 (PhysOrg.com) -- Faces tell the stories in UC Riverside professor Larry Rosenblum's ecological listening lab, as volunteer test subjects show that they can "read" unheard speech — not just from lips, but from the simple movements of dots placed on lips, teeth and tongue. http://phys.org/news192989099.html Medicine & Health Thu, 13 May 2010 17:05:23 EST news192989099 (PhysOrg.com) -- People are much better at recognising faces of their own racial group than those of different races, but a new study suggests that drinking alcohol almost eliminates that bias. http://phys.org/news188211622.html Medicine & Health Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:30:01 EST news188211622 (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to recognise faces is largely determined by your genes, according to new research at UCL (University College London). http://phys.org/news186072174.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:15 EST news186072174 Japan's NEC Corp. announced today that its face recognition technologies ranked number one in the Still-Face Dataset of the Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC) carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. http://phys.org/news183387609.html Technology Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:20:01 EST news183387609 Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. Thursday said it will launch Sony Ericsson's Xperia smart phone in April, in a direct challenge to heavyweight Apple's iPhone handsets. http://phys.org/news183272098.html Electronics Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:30:01 EST news183272098 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recognizing faces is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it. Some people are unable to recognize even their closest friends (a condition called prosopagnosia), while others have a near-photographic memory for large numbers of faces. Now a twin study by collaborators at MIT and in Beijing, China shows that face recognition is heritable, and that it is inherited separately from general intelligence or IQ. http://phys.org/news183145169.html Medicine & Health Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:30:01 EST news183145169 I've tested many underwater point-and-shoot digital cameras and none are as simple to use as the Canon D10. The digital file it produced underwater was simply better than any other point-and-shoot camera I've tried. http://phys.org/news171138825.html Electronics Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:40:04 EST news171138825