New software from biometric specialist Extreme Reality captures full-body, 3D motion using a 2D camera. The result is a recognizable gait unique to each individual, which the company believes could be used as a biometric signature. The Herzelia, Israel-based company has big plans for its patented 3D motion control software, making the software compatible with […]

Biometric technology has been around for more than a century, with its earliest and most common uses centered in law enforcement. In the past decades, application of the technology has extended to the identification and authentication of individuals at border crossings, onto computer networks and into physical spaces. The triumvirate–finger, face and iris–remain the top […]

The University of Southampton in the UK is starting a cybersecurity research center, thanks to government funding, reports the BBC. The government has funded eight universities to study the subject matter, which includes bank, border and national infrastructure security. The University of Southampton will use the funds to continue its research in the biometrics field. […]

Carnegie Mellon University’s new Pedo-Biometrics Lab is working on a project to produce biometric shoe insoles that will be able to detect a person by their gait, giving a unique way to restrict access to high-security areas, reports the Associated Press. The Pedo-Biometrics Lab is a partnership with Canadian company Autonomous ID and has $1.5 […]

The University of Calgary’s Biometric Technologies Laboratory is examining biometrics in conjunction with neural networks to understand whether different biometric measurements can stimulate security systems to improve their recognition process, reports R&D. Lab head Professor Marina Gavrilova hopes that the lab’s work will improve accuracy and the overall recognition process by simulating the brain and […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

“I know his gait, ‘tis he.–Villain, thou diest!” – Othello, act V, scene 1 William Shakespeare mentioned in several plays that you could recognize a person by the way he walked. Yet it’s taken hundreds of years for researchers to discover the science behind gait biometrics and make it a viable identification tool. Professor Mark […]

Mark Nixon, a professor of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, is having his research on gait biometrics and the progress it has made over the years featured as part of the Planet Earth series on the Discovery Channel, according to a report from the University of Southampton. The report for […]

Five police agencies around the U.S. have been utilizing a handheld, fingerprint-based biometric scanner as part of an FBI pilot program of its FBI Next Generation Identification System, according to a Pittsburg Post Gazette article. The new system works by increasing a speed at which a state or city police force can get federal criminal […]

A Wikileaks document released in December details a biometric-based device that would identify anyone that steps on it that is being developed by the Chinese government, according to a CNN GO article. The devices, which are being called spy pads, would work via gait biometrics, or the unique build of individuals combined with their stance […]