biometric research

FBI Uses Twins to Test Limits of AI Biometric Systems

August 14, 2026

The FBI has detailed a long-running research program that uses biometric data from twins to test how reliably artificial intelligence systems can distinguish people with unusually similar appearances. The bureau […]

IJCB Competition Shows Gains From Synthetic Face-Recognition Training Data

July 29, 2026

A biometric research competition has found that adapting a large foundation model with synthetic identity data can improve face-recognition performance without using photographs of real people for training. The Competition […]

Researchers Demonstrate Heartbeat-Based Continuous Authentication in Earbuds

May 20, 2026

Researchers have demonstrated a continuous authentication system, called AccLock, that identifies the wearer of wireless earbuds from the mechanical vibrations of their heartbeat. The work, published yesterday and available as […]

Japanese Researchers Make Case for Breath Biometrics

June 29, 2022

A team of researchers from Japan’s Kyushu University have come up with a novel form of biometric authentication. The team’s technique creates a biometric profile based on the chemical compounds […]

iMotions Enables Remote Research With New Online Data Collection Platform

February 23, 2021

The research software specialist iMotions has released a remote version of its data collection platform. The appropriately dubbed Online Data Collection module was built to make sure scientific research could […]

Purdue, PhysIQ to Study Whether Biometric Wearables Can Detect COVID-19

September 30, 2020

Digital medicine company PhysIQ and Purdue University have announced a partnership to jointly develop an algorithm that can detect early signs of COVID-19 from data gleaned from a biometric smartwatch. […]

Dutch R&D Group Announces Contactless Hand Vein Biometrics Sensor

July 15, 2020

Netherlands-based independent R & D facility Holst Center announced recently that it has developed the world’s first organic near-infrared (NIR) image sensor capable of detecting vein patterns in a person’s […]

AI Renderer Can Create Accurate 3D Face Models from Photos

June 18, 2020

A research team from the Imperial College London and AI and machine learning startup FaceSoft.io announced a joint effort on a new solution called AvatarMe that is capable of reconstructing […]

USC Researchers Proclaim 100% Accurate Anti-spoofing Biometric Tech

June 16, 2020

A team of researchers from the University of Southern California’s (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) has announced some of the results from its recent study titled ‘Biometric Authentication with Timeless […]

UWA Researchers Announce Open 3D Facial Recognition Model

July 9, 2018

Researchers with the University of Western Australia have developed a new 3D facial recognition model that is now available on an open basis to other researchers. Called FR3DNet, the model […]

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