News tagged with biometric
Study: Consumers, Marketers Differ on Electronic Privacy
A new study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that consumers and marketers have different expectations for privacy boundaries when new technology is used, and consumers most often prefer an opt-in ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 09, 2010 |
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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 ...
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Report questions biometric technologies
Television cop shows love "biometric" technologies -- fingerprints, eye scans and so on -- but a blue-ribbon panel report calls for caution on widespread use of biological identification.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Knobbly kneed ID: Internal body parts and biometrics
Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 25, 2009 |
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From handwritten CAPTCHAs to 'smart rooms,' tech solutions start with pattern recognition
Buy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the CAPTCHA, the Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. Here, the website ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 14, 2010 |
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Bum's the word in Japan security scans
Put your fingerprint scanners away. Stand aside iris measurers. Buttocks are the new way to prove who you are.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Twins are intriguing research subjects for Notre Dame biometircs researchers
Each year in August, the aptly named town of Twinsburg, Ohio, is the site of the largest official gathering of twins in the world. Open to all multiples -- identical and fraternal twins, triplets and quads from newborns ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 08, 2010 |
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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 ...
Sep 24, 2010 |
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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 ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Fingerprints and faces can be faked, but not brain patterns
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors able to identify individuals’ brain patterns and heart rhythms could become part of security systems which also use more traditional forms of biometric recognition, thanks to pioneering work being ...
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module
Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Software sniffs out criminals by the shape of their nose
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget iris and fingerprint scans - scanning noses could be a quicker and easier way to verify a person's identity, according to scientists from the University of the West of England and University ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 02, 2010 |
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Method to identify people by their ears developed
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a new technique to identify people by their ears.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Conference showcases Fujitsu PalmSecure Biometric Authentication technology
Fujitsu Frontech North America will showcase the Fujitsu PalmSecure palm vein biometric authentication solution during Biometric Consortium Conference 2010. PalmSecure authentication technology was recently integrated with ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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