Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia are presenting new methods of capturing high-fidelity 3D facial expressions at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver. The research team, made up of Haoda Huang, Xin Tong and Hsiang-Tao Wu from Microsoft Research Asia, along with Jinziang Chai from Texas A&M University, used a two-step process to create more realistic 3D images. […]

Polish Security Printing Works has signed a contract to supply and distribute e-IDs and biometric passports in the Republic of Armenia. First announced in November 2010, the project calls for some 300,000 blank biometric passports and a million e-IDs to be delivered to Armenia over the next five years. As part of the contract, the […]

Aware Inc. announced that it has won a competitive contract to provide the Transportation Security Administration with a commercial off-the-shelf Fingerprints System and associated installation support, training, and maintenance. The solution will utilize Aware’s Biometric Services Platform (BioSP), a service-oriented biometric application server, to submit standard-compliant fingerprint records to the FBI for employee background checks […]

London’s Heathrow International Airport has announced plans to bring face recognition systems as additional layer of security for those flying internationally, according to a Singularity Hub article. Specifically, the systems are being put into place to ensure the person receiving a boarding pass is the same person who uses the boarding pass as Heathrow’s Terminals […]

GTSI Corp, an information technology systems integrator, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense that will see the company provide Army personnel with mobile biometric solutions enabling them to better identify persons of interest in the field. The contract, called the Biometric Automated Toolset – Army contract, […]

Developers for mobile technology such as Google’s Android operating system have been trying to bring near field communication (NFC), or a means of utilizing basic authentication and personal devices to pay for items instead of cash or credit cards, according to a technology review article. While such technology has become commonplace in some Asian countries, […]

Social networking site Facebook could be in legal trouble with Germany due to Facebook’s usage of facial recognition technology on uploaded pictures being in violation of the country’s privacy and data protection laws, according to a Guardian article. Johannes Caspar, an official Germany’s data protection sector, has written Facebook demanding the removal of the program […]

Can facial recognition software give away more details about you, like your Social Security number? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon think it can, reports PC Magazine. A team lead by IT professor Alessandro Acquisti have developed a mobile app that draws on facial-recognition software, cloud computing and information from social networking sites to positively identify people. […]