Microsoft President Delves Into Facial Recognition Ethics
As controversy over the public use of facial recognition continues, Microsoft is following Google’s lead in laying out its approach to the ethics of the…
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Plurilock Launches Sales Partner Program
“Plurilock says its sales partners will extend its reach in the Middle East, Europe, the APAC region, and the Americas.” Plurilock has launched a new partner…
ID R&D Solution Can Identify a Voice with 1-2 Seconds of Natural Speech
“What’s more, the system is highly accurate, offering an Equal Error Rate of 0.3 percent on microphones and 0.6 percent for speech collected through a…
Microsoft Reduces Biometric Bias (But Won’t Say How Much)
Microsoft’s face scanning technology is now better able to determine the genders of subjects with darker skin tones, the company has announced. In a post on…
IBM Developing Huge Public Dataset to Help Eliminate Bias from Facial Recognition
“IBM is going to release a dataset of 36,000 facial images that will be equally distributed across a range of ethnicities, genders, and ages.” As the…
Biometric Surveillance Specialist to Bring Face Scanning to London Stadium
Israel-based AnyVision says it’s bringing biometric entry to a sports stadium in London this summer, but it’s not saying which one. As the Evening Standard…
Chinese Biometrics Competition Runs on Star Power
China-based online entertainment service provider iQIYI has announced a new competition aimed at pushing the boundaries of video-based biometric…
TrulyHandsfree Brings Wake Words to Hospitality
“…Roxy suggested that this functionality could help to prevent the kind of wake word error that recently resulted in a couple’s private conversation being…
Payment Security Alliance to Focus On Biometrics, AI
The National Retail Federation and other major merchant associations have teamed up to form a new coalition aimed at improving payment security in the US.…
NVIDIA Protégé Developing AI-Powered Biometric Watch List
A new participant in the NVIDIA Inception Program is aiming to dramatically reduce online fraud using facial recognition, AI, and a watch list approach. Called…