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Animetrics chosen by Duos Technologies as its core engine for facial recognition

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Animetrics and Duos Technologies, Inc. have partnered to make Animetrics’ technology the core engine for the process of facial recognition in Duos applications. . Duos will employ Animetrics 2Dto3D face biometrics technology in its ongoing development of gateway applications for its proprietary video analytics. Duos Technologies, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, offers systems based on its proprietary object detection and behavioral analysis software. Animetrics Inc., headquartered in Conway, NH, is a developer of 3D imaging for facial biometric systems. The Animetrics90 product family is based on the company’s core algorithms comprised of five patent-pending 2Dto3D face creation technologies allowing for pose and lighting invariant face recognition across a broad range of operating conditions. [end] 

FingerTec USA has expanded its line of fingerprint time clock software systems with the Face ID 3, which utilizes facial recognition capability.

Face ID 3 is a contact-free computer timeclock that can be used in business or home environments. The system weighs about four pounds and uses facial recognition plus a network of infrared scanners for a surface texture analysis (STA) algorithm.

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Biometric identification and object recognition technology provider Neurotechnology has released updates to its line of Software Development Kits (SDKs) for single and multi-biometric recognition of fingerprint, face, iris and voice identification and object recognition.

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Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects in portrait art.

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M2SYS Technology has released an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) that enables the storage, search, retrieval, processing and editing of biometric data and subject records. The new system is built on multi-modal architecture, enabling users to combine the biometric matching of a fingerprint with that of an iris, face or palm print.

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Viv.ie, a start-up located in Ireland working on face recognition technology, announced it is finishing a new type of facial recognition technology that does away with a number of the security pitfalls current facial recognition technology is commonly guilty of, according to a Sydney Morning Herald article.

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Nevada-based multimodal biometric authentication provider BioID has announced that its webcam-based biometric recognition product can now be used for authentication to Intel’s Cloud SSO and McAfee’s Cloud Identity Manager products.

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