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SCO and Nuance: Reliability for the New Millennium

whitepaper All Nuance deployments share the benefits of high accuracy speech recognition and an easy to use interface that provides fast and efficient service. SCO and Nuance jointly enable customers worldwide to benefit from the reliability and security of...

Tags: telecom hardware, operating systems, interface, speech

[10 Apr 2008]

Heathrow 'temporarily delays' fingerprint checks

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition Plans to introduce biometric fingerprint checks for domestic passengers travelling through Heathrow Airport have been delayed after the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) raised privacy concerns...

Tags: baa, biometrics, ico, heathrow

[26 Mar 2008]

Police gets to grips with body cameras

Case Study A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition Police in Staffordshire are trialling video technology to capture and store footage officers have gathered on the beat using cameras worn on the body. The trial is funded from the £3m that the Home...

Tags: police, compliance, management, cameras

[12 Mar 2008]

ID cards are dead

Comment A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as...

Tags: id cards, physical, cards, register

[07 Mar 2008]

Biometrics the future for flying bliss?

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition By 2015, biometric technology will make getting on a plane almost as easy as getting on the Tube or train today, according to a leading border security expert.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics

Tags: biometrics, travel, airport, automated

[21 Feb 2008]

EU border checks go biometric

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition Visitors to Europe will face biometric screening and automated security checks under proposals for a shake-up of EU border controls. Under plans to strengthen checks at European borders laid out by the...

Tags: biometric, eu, border, requiring

[14 Feb 2008]

Biometrics open up Heathrow Terminal One

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition Biometric passenger checks have landed at Heathrow that will allow domestic travellers to access more shops and restaurants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics

Tags: biometrics, airport, heathrow, international

[08 Feb 2008]

FBI proposes global biometric criminal database

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition UK police are in talks with the FBI about an international biometric database to track down the world's most wanted criminals and terrorists.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics

Tags: crime, biometric, database, police

[15 Jan 2008]

Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa...

Tags: biometrics, immigration, border, fingerprint

[14 Jan 2008]

PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his backing for ID cards this week in the face of accusations his support for the controversial scheme is wavering.

Tags: cards, identity, commitment, documents

[10 Jan 2008]

Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition Technology aimed at improving care and the quality of life for the elderly will receive a boost with a major project looking at computational intelligence.

Tags: intelligence, care, research, computers

[03 Jan 2008]

Millions of L-driver details "gone missing"

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing more than three million learner drivers' details. In a speech to Parliament yesterday, transport minister Ruth Kelly said the details had been lost by a...

Tags: dva, data, driver, hmrc

[18 Dec 2007]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment A is for Accuracy Fingerprint or iris recognition is being used at some organisations to enable employees to log on to the network, thus ensuring only authorised employees can access certain parts of the network.

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

UK passports face massive price hike

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition The cost of a passport is set to increase "substantially" over the next five years to cover the cost of larger electronic chips that will hold more data and fingerprints.

Tags: public accounts committee, id cards, epassports

[10 Oct 2007]

Improved Fingerprint Matching by Distortion Removal

whitepaper The distortion modelling and correction are explained, and results are presented demonstrating significant improvements in matching accuracy through the application of the technique. Fingerprint recognition is a well-researched problem, and there...

Tags: software engineering, acquired, fingerprints, prints

[31 Aug 2007]

Wilkinson shouts about £1.4m distribution system

News The system will replace the retailer's existing paper trail within the distribution centres, allowing it to reap the benefits of increased productivity and greater order-selection accuracy, which the suppliers - Psion Teklogix and Vocollect...

Tags: retail, logistics, voice recognition

[21 Aug 2007]

Biometric airport security flies high with passengers

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition 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...

Tags: fingerprint, iris scan, iris, misense

[27 Jun 2007]

Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up

News A is for Accuracy F is for Facial recognition Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. Fingerprint and iris scans were used for screening more...

Tags: biometric, heathrow, misense

[20 Jun 2007]

Voice Biometrics as a Natural and Cost-Effective Method of Authentication

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...

Tags: security management, levels, commerce, voice

[13 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: We need multiple biometrics

Comment Just afford our ICT systems the luxury of a multi-parameter approach and recognition accuracy will improve dramatically. At this point it is interesting to reflect that the concatenation of items 1 to 10 provides a far greater degree of recognition...

Tags: iris scans, fingerprint reader, facial recognition, biometrics

[12 Mar 2007]

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