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Vein recognition is a biometric that has traditionally been seen as difficult to hack or spoof, as the biometric patterns created by the vein structure in a ...

Voice identification, facial recognition, fingerprint reading or heartbeat analysis: biometric identification methods will be used more and more this year on ...

Biometrics: for better or for worse?

It is supposedly one of the most promising solutions for protecting us from terrorist attacks. Biometrics allows identifying a person by their biological ...

Biowatch SA raises CHF 1.2M seed round to finalise its disruptive wearable biometric authentication solution

Lausanne, Switzerland, January 17, 2017 - Biowatch SA, a Swiss start-up, has successfully closed last December an oversubscribed first financing round at CHF ...

At Switzerland's Idiap Research Institute, one man is on the front lines of the fight against cyberterrorism. He's an expert in biometrics. The more individual ...

Can science solve an 80-year-old Indian mystery?

Sébastien Marcel is an unlikely judge of beauty queens, but his face recognition expertise could finally solve the identity of an Indian woman on a precious ...

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Biometrics and Privacy

Idiap created in collaboration with UniDistance a new Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) program. The goal of this program is to teach concepts and ...

Eight Years of Face Recognition Research: Reproducibility, Achievements and Open Issues

This paper is a joint work between Tiago de Freitas Pereira from the Biometrics Security & Privacy group at Idiap Research Institute and Manuel Günther and his ...

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