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Biometric tech collaboration creates a new Rembrandt
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Thumbprint biometrics at Singaporean borders
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ravellers arriving and departing Singapore by sea or land may have their thumbprints scanned at immigration checkpoints, reports straitstimes.com. The BioScreen system will be rolled out at passenger halls of all sea and land checkpoints, according to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). This comes after a successful year-long trial at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal that has seen more than 120,000 travellers go through the new system.
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Reactions to pizza provide novel brain biometrics
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research study into brain biometrics has reported 100% accuracy. Published in IEEE Explore, the study points out that the vast majority of existing work on brain biometrics has been conducted on the ongoing electroencephalogram. This study argues that ‘the averaged eventrelated potential (ERP) may provide the potential for more accurate biometric identification, as its elicitation allows for some control over the cognitive state of the user to be obtained through the design of the challenge protocol’. The paper describes the Cognitive EventRElated Biometric REcognition (CEREBRE) protocol, an ERP biometric protocol designed to elicit individually unique responses from multiple functional brain systems (eg the primary visual, facial recognition, and gustatory/appetitive systems). The protocol collected multiple configurations of data, all of which achieved 100% identification accuracy in 50 users. • Technavio analysts forecast the global EEG and ECG biometrics market to grow at a CAGR of 12.37% during the period 2016-2020.
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Biometric tech collaboration creates a new Rembrandt
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collaboration between ING, Microsoft, Delft University of Technology, The Mauritshuis and Museum Het Rembrandthuis has used biometric technology to create a new painting in the style of Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The project, which took 18 months to complete, began by creating a digital database of Rembrandt’s entire body of work, 346 paintings. This produced 150Gb of digitally rendered graphics, which were assessed, pixel by pixel, providing detailed information on the harsh lighting that is characteristic of his paintings, how his portraits are commonly posed, the average age and race of his chosen subjects, their attire, how much facial hair they have, even the composition of their faces. • More information: https://www.nextrembrandt.com
Researchers flag up facial recognition SkullConduct measures racial bias conduction of sound acial recognition systems display a through the skull for racial bias, according to an article F ID and authentication published in The Atlantic. The report’s esearchers at Perceptual User Interface have unveiled
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SkullConduct, a biometric system that uses bone conduction of sound through the user’s skull, aimed at use with devices such as Google Glass. SkullConduct requires a microphone, something that may be integrated into eyewear devices. SkullConduct is based on a method to analyse the characteristic frequency response created by the user’s skull using a combination of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) features as well as a computationally lightweight 1NN classifier. The researchers have published a paper (https://perceptual.mpi-inf. mpg.de/files/2016/01/schneegass16_chi.pdf ) reporting on a controlled experiment with 10 participants that shows that this frequency response is person-specific and stable – even when taking off and putting on the device multiple times. The method is reported to result in 97.0% accuracy and authentication with an equal error rate of 6.9%.
authors, Clare Garvie and Jonathan Frankle, comment, “This is not to say that facial recognition algorithms are
May 2016
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Thumbprint biometrics at Singaporean borders
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ravellers arriving and departing Singapore by sea or land may have their thumbprints scanned at immigration checkpoints, reports straitstimes.com. The BioScreen system will be rolled out at passenger halls of all sea and land checkpoints, according to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA). This comes after a successful year-long trial at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal that has seen more than 120,000 travellers go through the new system.
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Reactions to pizza provide novel brain biometrics
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research study into brain biometrics has reported 100% accuracy. Published in IEEE Explore, the study points out that the vast majority of existing work on brain biometrics has been conducted on the ongoing electroencephalogram. This study argues that ‘the averaged eventrelated potential (ERP) may provide the potential for more accurate biometric identification, as its elicitation allows for some control over the cognitive state of the user to be obtained through the design of the challenge protocol’. The paper describes the Cognitive EventRElated Biometric REcognition (CEREBRE) protocol, an ERP biometric protocol designed to elicit individually unique responses from multiple functional brain systems (eg the primary visual, facial recognition, and gustatory/appetitive systems). The protocol collected multiple configurations of data, all of which achieved 100% identification accuracy in 50 users. • Technavio analysts forecast the global EEG and ECG biometrics market to grow at a CAGR of 12.37% during the period 2016-2020.
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Biometric tech collaboration creates a new Rembrandt
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collaboration between ING, Microsoft, Delft University of Technology, The Mauritshuis and Museum Het Rembrandthuis has used biometric technology to create a new painting in the style of Dutch Baroque painter Rembrandt van Rijn. The project, which took 18 months to complete, began by creating a digital database of Rembrandt’s entire body of work, 346 paintings. This produced 150Gb of digitally rendered graphics, which were assessed, pixel by pixel, providing detailed information on the harsh lighting that is characteristic of his paintings, how his portraits are commonly posed, the average age and race of his chosen subjects, their attire, how much facial hair they have, even the composition of their faces. • More information: https://www.nextrembrandt.com
Researchers flag up facial recognition SkullConduct measures racial bias conduction of sound acial recognition systems display a through the skull for racial bias, according to an article F ID and authentication published in The Atlantic. The report’s esearchers at Perceptual User Interface have unveiled
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SkullConduct, a biometric system that uses bone conduction of sound through the user’s skull, aimed at use with devices such as Google Glass. SkullConduct requires a microphone, something that may be integrated into eyewear devices. SkullConduct is based on a method to analyse the characteristic frequency response created by the user’s skull using a combination of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) features as well as a computationally lightweight 1NN classifier. The researchers have published a paper (https://perceptual.mpi-inf. mpg.de/files/2016/01/schneegass16_chi.pdf ) reporting on a controlled experiment with 10 participants that shows that this frequency response is person-specific and stable – even when taking off and putting on the device multiple times. The method is reported to result in 97.0% accuracy and authentication with an equal error rate of 6.9%.
authors, Clare Garvie and Jonathan Frankle, comment, “This is not to say that facial recognition algorithms are
May 2016