biometrics

WuXi AppTec Acquires US-Based Pharmapace

Pharmapace will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of WuXi Clinical and will continue to focus on growing its core biometrics competences.

Facing Up To The Future

With facial recognition technology now widely used in law enforcement and in consumer devices, has privacy become a relic of the past?

Deep Learning As A ‘Gait-Way’ To Identity

Using Siamese network architectures for deep learning, researchers in Japan have designed an improved gait recognition method to identify people from video surveillance records.

3D Fingerprint Scans Made Faster And Cheaper

This contactless system can accurately scan a human fingerprint in 3D in just two seconds.

The Science Of Identity

Fingerprint and retina scanners may have entered popular culture, but how widely accepted are biometric technologies and what are the issues concerning their use?

Staying In Touch, Even On The Move

A sensor sheet which conforms to the contours of the body could facilitate the development of even more accurate biometric devices.

Tan Tieniu Elected To Royal Academy Of Engineering

Dr. Tan Tieniu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering.

“Happy Feet” Biometrics Program Receives Gates Foundation Grant

An innovative project investigating how linking infant footprints to vaccination records could improve vaccination programs in the developing world has received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.