• BIOMETRICSSecurity Veins: Advanced Biometric Authentication Through AI and Infrared

    Hyperspectral imaging and AI can identify individuals using blood vessels in palms.

  • BIOMETRICSAI-driven Gait Analysis Bridges Health Care and Security Fields

    By Rhiannon Koch

    The analysis of a person’s individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.

  • ELECTION INTEGRITYMaking E-voting Safer from Coercion and Vote Buying

    By Tanya Petersen

    As we come to the end of a year in which half the world’s population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter coercion and vote buying.

  • SURVEILLANCE'Significant' Risks as Facial Recognition in Russia's Subways Goes Regional

    By Andrei Grigoryev

    In a move that human rights advocates warn carries potential risks for civil rights, Russia has begun expanding its facial-recognition payment system for subways to six cities outside of Moscow.

  • SURVEIILANCEDetroit Takes Important Step in Curbing the Harms of Face Recognition Technology

    By Tori Noble

    In a first-of-its-kind agreement, the Detroit Police Department recently agreed to adopt strict limits on its officers’ use of face recognition technology as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by a victim of this faulty technology.

  • BIOMETRICSThe New Fintech That Knows Whether Your Voice Matches Your Face

    By John Jeffay

    Your face is no longer your own. Nor is your voice. Fraudsters can steal them both from the Internet. And, using the power of AI, they can create a deepfake version of you that’s so convincing it’ll beat bank security. Banks and financial institutions increasingly use voice biometrics these days to confirm a caller’s identity.

  • FACIAL RECOGNITIONSeeing Behind the Mask

    There is a need for face recognition to be able to “see behind the mask” for security and safety. Researchers discusses the potential of new software which will allow facial recognition to work despite the mask you use.

  • AIAI Faces Look More Real Than Actual Human Faces

    White faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI) now appear more real than human faces, according to new research. The same wasn’t true for images of people of color.

  • VOICE AUTHENTICATIONHow Secure Are Voice Authentication Systems Really?

    Voice authentication has increasingly been used in remote banking, call centers and other security-critical scenarios. Attackers can break voice authentication with up to 99 percent success within six tries.

  • REMOTE IDENTIFICATIONTrack 2 of the Remote Identity Validation Tech Demo Challenge

    DHS S&T announces the launch of Track 2 of the Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration (RIVTD). RIVTD is a series of technology challenges to evaluate the ability of systems to authenticate identity documents, assess the “liveness” of selfie photos, and evaluate identity verification using images taken with smartphones and similar devices.

  • BIOMETRICSU.K. Police Fail to Meet “Legal and Ethical Standards” in Use of Facial Recognition

    Researchers devise an audit tool to test whether police use of facial recognition poses a threat to fundamental human rights, and analyze three deployments of the technology by British forces – with all three failing to meet “minimum ethical and legal standards.”

  • BIOMETRICSFacial Recognition Technology and Counter-Terror Operations

    By Akshat Upadhyay

    The use of facial recognition technology in counterterrorism must address several formidable challenges before being adopted. This means we should proceed careful, even cautiously, before operationalizing the technology.

  • BIOMETRICSFacial Recognition: U.K. Plans to Monitor Migrant Offenders Are Unethical – and They Won’t Work

    By Namrata Primlani

    The UK Home Office plans to make migrants convicted of criminal offences scan their faces five times a day using a smart watch equipped with facial recognition technology. This is a mistake. The difficulty working with darker skin tones reflects the experiences of people of color who try to use facial recognition technology. In recent years, researchers have demonstrated the unfairness in facial recognition systems, finding that the software and algorithms developed by big technology companies are more accurate at recognizing lighter skin tones than darker ones.

  • BIOMETRICSDeepfakes Expose Vulnerabilities in Facial Recognition Technology

    Mobile devices use facial recognition technology to help users quickly and securely unlock their phones, make a financial transaction or access medical records. But facial recognition technologies that employ a specific user-detection method are highly vulnerable to deepfake-based attacks that could lead to significant security concerns.

  • BIOMETRICSQuantum-Inspired Approach Allows Lidar to Be used for Facial Recognition

    Quantum-inspired technique can be used to perform lidar imaging with a much higher depth resolution than is possible with conventional approaches. Lidar, which uses laser pulses to acquire 3D information about a scene or object, is usually best suited for imaging large objects such as topographical features or built structures due to its limited depth resolution. By capturing more details, new approach could make lidar useful for facial recognition.