Biometric technologies

Saratoga Hospitals deploy biometrics to increase security and improve efficiency
To improve privacy and security measures, Saratoga Hospital in New York recently announced that it would be partnering with DigitalPersona Inc. to install biometric access controls to verify medical personnel’s identities and increase efficiency
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Computer spots liars by looking at the way they talk
Computer scientists are exploring whether machines can read the visual cues of an individual’s conduct to discover whether or not that individual is lying; in a study of forty videotaped conversations, an automated system the researchers developed correctly identified whether interview subjects were lying or telling the truth 82.5 percent of the time
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Researchers develop pulse biometrics
Individuals could soon be using their pulses as a password; researchers in China have developed technology that can recognize an individual’s unique heartbeat for use as a password
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Smartphone biometric security market set to grow five-fold in three years
A new report projects that the market for mobile phone biometrics will grow more than five times in the next three years
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Startup developing eye blood vessel biometrics
Smartphone users could soon be using the whites of their eyes as their passwords. EyeVerify, a Kansas City-based startup, has developed eye biometrics that use a smartphone’s camera to analyze a user’s blood vessels around their irises
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Iris recognition for Android smartphones
Smart Sensors Limited recently announced that its iris recognition platform was now available for Android-based smart phones
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Growing pressure to investigate facial recognition technology
Concerned with the growing ubiquity of facial recognition technology, earlier this month, lawmakers sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging the agency to “look further” into the technology
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Researchers develop altered fingerprint detector
Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a technique to help detect when an individual has deliberately altered their fingerprints in an effort to fool biometric scanners
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Free real-time facial recognition app for smartphones
Last week Face.com released a new app for smartphones that automatically recognizes the faces of friends in photos taken with an Apple iPhone
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Day of human-elements technology nears
Human-element research looks into biometrics, brain/computer interface and interaction, and human language technology; the U.S. military encourages government agencies, academic institutions, and commercial organizations to collaborate in this research
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Growing banking market for voice biometrics
According to a recently released study, voice biometrics will be increasingly used to validate users in telephone-based financial transactions
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Facial biometrics meet gunshot detectors
Two high tech companies have teamed up to create the world’s first system that can detect gunshots and identify the shooter’s face
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Fingerprint Cards in record deal with China
In a landmark deal, Fingerprint Cards recently received an order for nearly $6.5 million worth of the company’s products from Chinese banks
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New biometric tools for Android
Neurotechnology releases VeriFinger, VeriLook, and MegaMatcher biometric technologies for the Android platform; the new products contain the same algorithms as the PC-based versions of the three solutions
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Facial expression for anxiety identified
Researchers have, for the first time, identified the facial expression of anxiety; the facial expression for the emotion of anxiety comprises an environmental scanning look that appears to aid risk assessment
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