News tagged with biometric system

New protocol enables wireless and secure biometric acquisition with web service (w/ Video)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed and published a new protocol for communicating with biometric sensors over wired and wireless networks—using some of the same technologies ...

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created May 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fujitsu develops world's smallest and slimmest palm vein biometric authentication sensor deployable in tablet devices

Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced development of the world's smallest and slimmest palm vein authentication sensor that is capable of being employed in tablet devices. By upgrading the technology's ...

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created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research on avoiding fraud in biometric identification

Spanish scientists from Carlos III University of Madrid are analyzing possible attempts at fraud in various biometric identification systems in order to improve the security of facial, iris, fingerprint or ...

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created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biometric ID technologies 'inherently fallible', new report says

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 ...

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created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world's two ...

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

BioVault locks up biometrics: Using biometrics for encryption, digital signatures

A system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption has been developed by researchers in South Africa. They describe details of the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Se ...

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created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0