News tagged with fingerprint identification

Scotland Yard deploys mobile fingerprint devices

(AP) -- Scotland Yard says it's equipping its police officers with handheld fingerprint devices, something the force says will help identify suspects in a matter of seconds.

Technology / Other

created May 23, 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 ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

NEC Develops Video Content Identification Technology that Detects Illegal Copies in a Matter of Seconds

NEC Corporation announced today the development of a video content identification technology that detects illegal copies of video content uploaded to the Internet in a matter of seconds.

Technology / Software

created May 07, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Safer swiping while voting and globetrotting

Since 2007, every new U.S. passport has been outfitted with a computer chip. Embedded in the back cover of the passport, the "e-passport" contains biometric data, electronic fingerprints and pictures of the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers give high marks to new technology for fingerprint identification

Overworked crime scene investigators can take heart at the results of recent tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of new technologies that automate the manual portion of latent ...

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created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0