Biometric solutions are typically used for security and access control across businesses and government organizations.
The U.S. government has taken a keen interest in biometric applications and has been aggressively funding advanced research programs in businesses that offer biometrics.
NO 1. Organizations Offering Biometric Solutions
c. Onfido – Facial Biometrics
London-based Onfido is an online digital verification platform for businesses. Among other compliances and clearances, Onfido also uses facial biometrics,
as an additional layer of security, to verify individual persons. The company said it uses machine learning technology to validate a user’s identity and cross-reference it against international credit and watchlist databases.
The video below demonstrates the use of facial biometrics on the Onfido mobile website,
which seems to be integrated with a banking platform. The volunteer is asked to verify her identity using two steps. First, photos of her driver’s license are scanned online.
www.dprg.co.in
Biometric solutions are typically used for security and access control across businesses and government organizations.
The U.S. government has taken a keen interest in biometric applications and has been
aggressively funding advanced research programs in businesses that offer biometrics.
b. Crossmatch – ‘Composite’ Biometric Authentication
Crossmatchclaims to be a “risk-based composite authentication and biometric identity management” company.
In 2014, it merged with Digital Persona, another biometric company, to launch its key biometric solution platform for enterprises called DigitalPersona Composite Authentication.
The platform offers the “broadest set of authentication factors,” including fingerprint scanning, face and voice recognition, and behavioral biometrics,
such as keystroke, swipe, and mouse action tracking, the company said. In November 2017, Crossmatch announced its partnership with BehavioSec,
a Sweden-based behavioral biometrics company, which powers the behavioral biometric analyses functions of DigitalPersona.
In September 2017, Crossmatch partnered with Oxford Computer Group, a Microsoft Gold Partner that offers identity and security solutions.
This announcement claims that the DigitalPersona software will be offered to Oxford’s Microsoft customer base.
The video below shows use cases of its various biometric solutions for law enforcement,
including the Digital Persona ID, an app that comes with fingerprint recognition software,
which helps store and identify security and agency personnel through their biometric information.
www.dprg.co.in
As the world continues to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, robots and automation are playing a critical role in helping to safeguard people while helping make and deliver critical supplies to health care workers and to the public as they shelter in place.
On April 8, the Association for Advancing Automation (A3) convened a live online panel with four industry leaders in the robotics industry:
Biometric solutions are typically used for security and access control across businesses and government organizations.
The U.S. government has taken a keen interest in biometric applications and has been
MIT alumnus-founded RightHand Robotics has developed picking robots that are more reliable and adaptable in warehouse environments.
For most people, the task of identifying an object, picking it up, and placing it somewhere else is trivial. For robots, it requires the latest in machine intelligence and robotic manipulation.
That’s what MIT spinoff RightHand Robotics has incorporated into its robotic piece-picking systems, which combine unique gripper designs with artificial intelligence and machine vision to help companies sort products and get orders out the door.
“If you buy something at the store, you push the cart down the aisle and pick it yourself. When you order online, there is an equivalent operation inside a fulfillment center,” says RightHand Robotics co-founder Lael Odhner ’04, SM ’06, PhD ’09. “The retailer typically needs to pick up single items, run them through a scanner, and put them into a sorter or conveyor belt to complete the order. It sounds easy until you imagine tens of thousands of orders a day and more than 100,000 unique products stored in a facility the size of 10 or 20 football fields, with the delivery expectation clock ticking.”
RightHand Robotics is helping companies respond to two broad trends that have transformed retail operations. One is the explosion of e-commerce, which only accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic. The other is a shift to just-in-time inventory fulfillment, in which pharmacies, grocery stores, and apparel companies restock items based on what’s been purchased that day or week to improve efficiency.
In this new study, the researchers attempt to overcome this limitation using a concept called disentanglement. Disentanglement can be used to generate deep fakes, for instance, by disentangling human face movements and identity. By doing this, said Ge, “people can synthesize new images and videos that substitute the original person’s identity with another person, but keep the original movement.”
Similarly, the new approach takes a group of sample images—rather than one sample at a time as traditional algorithms have done—and mines the similarity between them to achieve something called “controllable disentangled representation learning.”