An Overview of Biometric Face Recognition and Video Identifying Technologies by Alice Osborn
Biometric face recognition technologies are a new and evolving measure that governments and firms use to identify criminals and protect innocent people. However, the makers of this biometric face technology must contend with the inevitable ethical issues: what if the wrong person is identified... This is true: at the 2001 Super Bowl in Tampa, the biometric software wrongly identified several individuals as wanted persons, and there were failed biometric surveillance installations at several airports.

The Future of Biometrics -- Trends and Emerging Uses for Biometric Technology by Alice Osborn
The future of biometrics holds great promise for law enforcement applications, as well for private industry uses. By measuring facial geometry, surveillance systems can identify suspects against characteristics stored in the security system's database. ... Strengthening existing biometric innovations for future growth All of these security innovations will make biometric technology more accurate and make its usage more widespread. ... With such a young technology, biometric and identification technology has everything to gain with improved standards and accuracy.

How Biometric Technology is Used in Video Surveillance by Alice Osborn
As the recent July 7th London bombings would reveal, biometric technology images from over 200,000 video surveillance cameras are key weapons against the terrorists. What makes these biometric cameras so extraordinary is that these cameras have a 360-spherical lens, called a fisheye, to follow... How to evaluate these biometric solutions Although evaluation techniques for biometric solutions are not standardized, research enterprises and commercial firms are encouraged to take the Face Recognition Vendor Tests (FRVT).

Biometrics History -- Looking at Biometric Technologies from Past to Present by Alice Osborn
The ancient Egyptians and the Chinese played a large role in biometrics' history. Although biometric technology seems to belong in the twenty-first century, the history of biometrics goes back thousands of years. Today, the focus is on using biometric face recognition and identifying... • In the 1960s and '70s, signature biometric authentication procedures were developed, but the biometric field remained fixed until the military and security agencies researched and developed biometric technology beyond fingerprinting.

Biometric Technology FAQ by Thomas Boggo
Biometric technology uses intrinsic human characteristics such as fingerprints, handprints, facial characteristics, irises or retinas in the eyes, voice, and many other things for identification purposes. Biometrics security systems are growing rapidly because they are considered more secure... That's a brief overview of biometric technology and here are some frequently asked questions: 1. ... So you can see biometric technology is quite advanced. ... What's the enrollment capacity of biometric databases?

Privacy Issues Surrounding Biometric Technology by Thomas Boggo
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center have provoked in-depth discussion and study of existing security measures, their deficiencies, and how to enhance security to prevent similar terrorist attacks from occurring in the future. Biometric technology has risen to the top of the list as a... What's new is introducing technology into the mix that compares a given biometric with a stored database of biometrics to verify the identity of an individual. ... On the surface biometric technology may sound like a panacea but it's use has raised significant privacy concerns that need to be...

Biometric Baggage Check-in and More by Andy Reed
Back in January we reported on the use of biometric scanners at Heathrow and other international airports. Now two more biometric applications that will impact international travelers are coming down the pike, both from Precise Biometrics, a Swedish company with subsidiaries in the US and UK. ... While licensing of the technology to WWT has begun, the actual implementation of the technology to newly issued passports is not expected to begin until later this year, and will continue through approximately 2012.

An Introduction To Time And Attendance Tracking Software by Kevin Stith
Attendance tracking system has greatly advanced through the years. What you started off as using either manual process of writing your time-in has changed to a time card machine that stamps the time of your arrival and departure from work. This technology is also slowly going obsolete as we are... With the help of advance technology, we have seen the integration of software and hardware systems that help monitor and keep track of the attendance records of your employees. ... But similar to the time card, there is a tendency for the physical identification card to be used to represent the...

We Know Why You Haven’t Decided Yet To Purchase A Security Product! by Liuba Ceban
There are many people, who heared about the security tools, available for data protection. But it is not an easy issue to understand to those who are not software literate. In this article we will look at this issue in order to understand that. With the growth of information technologies,... Users now can also protect and encrypt their email correspondence using Dekart digital certification service in combination with the smart card and biometric authentication. ... Dekart offers the flexibility to choose between different vendors’ smart cards, tokens, biometric devices and even USB flash...

Finger Print Recognition Process and Parameters by Brindha Ramamoorthy
Introduction In a number of business transactions and access to privileged information, reliable and accurate verification of people is extremely important. Forensic science labs and identification units for criminal investigations routinely use fingerprints. ... Automatic verification methods based on physical biometric characteristics such as fingerprint or iris can provide positive verification with a very high accuracy. ... More recently an increasing number of civilian and commercial applications like welfare disbursement, cellular, phone access, laptop computer login are either using...