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Face Recognition System
Downloads Face Recognition System Matlab source code for face recognition. EigenFaces-based algorithm for face verification and recognition with a training stage. Matlab and Matlab Image Processing Toolbox are required.
[February 8, 2006, 10:35]
Face recognition 'fails to catch criminals'
News The department acquired the system through a free test program from face-recognition company Visionics (now Identix). The Tampa Police Department in Florida this week ditched a controversial facial-recognition system, saying it had not helped them...
[August 22, 2003, 10:20]
Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Integration RFID and Face Recognition for Technical and Vocational Education and Training on ARM and Windows CE
White Papers This paper presents a technique of mobile platform learning for relating paper maps and electronic information resources using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and face recognition on the Intel XScale PXA270 CPU target ARM system, mobile...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
Efficient 3D Reconstruction for Face Recognition
White Papers Face recognition with variant Pose, Illumination and Expression (PIE) is a challenging problem. This paper proposes an analysis-by-synthesis framework for face recognition with variant PIE. First, an efficient 2D-to-3D integrated face...
[March 2, 2007, 0:00]
Online banks plan face-recognition trials
News Internet banks in the UK and Europe are set to trial facial recognition technology in the New Year that will authenticate customers from their home PC instead of passwords or PIN numbers. While facial recognition technology is undoubtedly far more...
[December 12, 2003, 8:45]
Banks look at face recognition for ATMs
News Biodata yesterday launched BioID 3.0 in Australia -- a product that uses face, voice and lip-movement recognition for identification and authorisation. There are already "quite a few installations" of biometric-enabled ATMs in the US and Europe...
[October 10, 2001, 10:27]
Juvenile offender to be tracked by face recognition
News Electronic tags worn by the criminals will be linked to a computerised voice recognition system that telephones the juvenile at various times of the day to check that they are where they are supposed to be.
[July 19, 2001, 14:08]
Face Value: Examining the Factors That Influence Successful Facial Recognition Technology Implementations
White Papers The myriad claims and counter-claims about the efficacy of facial recognition (FR) systems bewilders many people, even perhaps those in the biometrics technology community. This paper attempts to bring clarity to the topic, reconciling the...
[August 2, 2007, 0:23]
Civil rights group decries face-recognition tools
News Face-recognition technology designed to help catch known criminals proved ineffective during a two-month period, according to a report released Thursday by the America Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Visionics, one of the biggest makers of face...
[January 4, 2002, 9:23]
Privacy concerns continue to grow
News In a post-September 11 world, the technical opportunities for surveillance seem endless: national identification cards, face-recognition systems and video cameras on street corners. Many police departments are considering or already implementing...
[April 19, 2002, 12:52]
Mobile phones get facial recognition
News OMRON's OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor software can compare the face of the user of a PDA, mobile phone or other handheld device with a photo of the user using the device's built-in camera. The OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor will be on...
[March 1, 2005, 17:00]
Natal's gesture recognition gets a workout
News It has said Natal, which incorporates face-, voice- and gesture-recognition technologies, will be sold as an add-on to the current Xbox 360 console. But it is even easier to appreciate once you get a chance to try the gesture recognition technology.
[August 7, 2009, 14:59]
Face login experiments
Blog Comment The last I knew, face recognition had not reached that point yet, but from your information, it sounds like it is getting close. With fingerprint recognition systems, it is always best to register more than one finger; other than politicians, not...
[March 23, 2009, 13:09]
Sony Aibo gets powers of recognition
News By infusing Aibo with increased artificial intelligence, such as voice and face recognition, we are expanding the autonomous functionality of the Entertainment Robot product line," Victor Matsuda, president of Entertainment Robot America, said in...
[October 10, 2002, 15:41]
Police use face-mapping tools to identify abuse victims
News The IT company Serco was commissioned to develop the face-recognition software for NCS following Operation Cathedral -- an international operation that led to the arrest and imprisonment of the world's largest Internet paedophile ring, the...
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Airport security technology under scrutiny
News Aviation experts say face recognition is perhaps the most promising biometric technique for overcrowded airports because it relies on far-away cameras to identify people -- not finger scanners or other devices requiring people to click, touch or...
[September 13, 2001, 14:40]
Face login experiments
Blog After successful registration and having restarted the computer a new option appears on the login screen called ‘start face recognition’. This bypasses face recognition, requiring just the usual password.
[March 23, 2009, 13:10]
Researchers get ready to learn from Robo-Einstein
News The researchers directed the robot head to twist and turn its face in all directions while analysing its own facial expressions using a video camera and software called Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT), developed at UCSD.
[July 17, 2009, 17:35]
Aviation authority sets strict biometric passport guidelines
News According to a specification from the International Civil Aviation Organisation, citizens of the 188 member countries will have to respect strict rules before getting into the photo booth -- including instructions to stop smiling too much, because...
[August 12, 2004, 13:35]
Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs
News Several airports adopted face-recognition software in an effort to beef up security after the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Some experts say face recognition is perhaps the most promising biometric technique for...
[March 27, 2002, 14:33]
