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News Biometric tech can take the form of fingerprint, retina, iris pattern, voice and even face shape recognition. Schools have been offered guidance on how to implement biometric technology. The advice from the British Educational Communications and...
[25 Jul 2007]
whitepaper They can be broadly classified as something the user knows, such as a password or PIN; something the user has, such as a smart card or ATM card; and something that's part of the user, such as a fingerprint or iris.
[10 Jul 2007]
whitepaper Face and iris identification have been employed in various biometric applications. Two different strategies have been used for fusing iris and face classifiers. The second strategy is to treat the matching distances of face and iris classifiers as...
[06 Jul 2007]
News Under the terms of the contract, worth in excess of £5m, LogicaCMG will develop the MoD's Incident Recording Information System (Iris) which collates and analyses health and safety information for the MoD's 300,000 personnel.silicon.com Public Sector
[04 Jul 2007]
whitepaper Matrox Iris P-Series is a fully programmable smart camera that incorporates an embedded Intel architecture processor and runs the Microsoft Windows CE .NET real time operating system. Programming the Matrox Iris P-Series is done using Microsoft...
[03 Jul 2007]
News I is for Iris The UK's airports have been rolling out biometric checks at their gates recently as part of Project Iris - Iris Recognition Immigration System - which uses iris-scanning technology to identify frequent travellers and speed up...
[27 Jun 2007]
News I is for Iris Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more than 3,000 passengers who volunteered to take part in the trial on Cathay Pacific and Emirates flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong.
[20 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet A number of other technologies were examined to cut down on fraud, including putting photos on cards as well as biometric solutions such as fingerprint and iris scanning and voice recognition. What is it?
[13 Jun 2007]
News Iris recognition-based biometric technology has been rolled out at Gatwick Airport's South Terminal. The Iris Recognition Immigration System (Iris) lets registered passengers enter the UK without queuing to see an immigration officer at passport...
[17 May 2007]
News For example the dropping of iris biometrics and reuse of existing government databases should have had a noticeable effect on the costs of the scheme but this is not the case, the LSE report claims. The UK's identity cards scheme appears "out of...
[16 May 2007]
Comment There were others, like the C&W angle to a big R&SA contract, and even Peter Cochrane chipped in with a blog about iris scanning at Heathrow Airport. Years ago, when I used to call someone for the first time from silicon.com and had to explain what...
[18 Apr 2007]
Comment For nearly a year I have considered joining the iris-scanning security trial at Heathrow Airport. Right alongside is the empty aisle for the iris scanner, and I wistfully look over as some lucky individual strolls up with something of an air of...
[18 Apr 2007]
whitepaper In the past, voice biometrics took a back seat to other physical biometric methods of identification and verification, such as fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scans, but new algorithms and more robust computer processing power have...
[13 Apr 2007]
Comment Item Recognition parameterNominal recognition error Difficulty of implementation (1=easy, 10=hard) Difficulty of use for subject (1=easy, 10=hard) Nominal sensor and software cost1 Body size 10 per cent 1 1 $3002 Body shape 10 per cent 2 1 $300...
[12 Mar 2007]
News The launch at Birmingham Terminal 1 is part of the nationwide rollout at airports across the UK of Project Iris - the Iris Recognition Immigration System - which uses iris-scanning technology to identify frequent travellers and speed up...
[06 Feb 2007]
Round-Up For starters, passengers passing through a number of international airports this year may well have been put in mind of 1959's Christmas number one (which the Round-Up is sure you know was "What Do You Wanna Make Those Eyes At Me For" by Emile...
[21 Dec 2006]
News So it was perhaps unsurprising that just before Christmas - the traditional time for burying bad news - the government revealed a major rethink of the project, scrapping the NIR mega-database and abandoning plans for iris biometrics in a bid to...
[21 Dec 2006]
News The government has trimmed back its plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID-card information, and shelving the use of iris-scanning biometrics. The government's ID card plan rethink is a step towards common sense - but the...
[20 Dec 2006]
News The government has trimmed back its controversial ID cards plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold all ID card information, and shelving the use of iris-scanning biometrics. Iris scans are now not going to be used following the review of the...
[19 Dec 2006]
News Not long after chip and PIN's launch, its successor was already being talked about - using biometrics such as iris scans and fingerprints for making payments. Chip and PIN. RFID. Contactless payments.
[18 Dec 2006]
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