1,000 examinees pass IEEE biometrics certification
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently certified 1,000 examinees as “Certified Biometrics Professionals”. The IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional designation sets the...
View ArticleIEEE announces call for papers for upcoming biometric recognition and...
The IEEE has announced a call for topics and papers for its upcoming Workshop on Biometric Recognition and its Applications (BR&A 2013), set to be held in conjunction with the IEEE iThings...
View ArticleClarkson, Notre Dame and Warsaw University of Technology collaborate on iris...
Over the next couple of months, researchers at Clarkson’s Center of Identification Technology Research (CITeR), along with the University of Notre Dame and Warsaw University of Technology will be...
View Article11th International Summer School on Biometrics to feature lectures, practical...
The International Summer School on Biometrics has announced the deadline to register for this year’s program is coming up in less than a month – February 15, 2014. Held since 2003, the International...
View ArticleBiometricUpdate.com comments on biometrics job prospects
Rawlson King, a contributing editor at BiometricUpdate.com was recently quoted in an article that discussed biometrics as a career option. According to an item in Today’s Engineer, an IEEE publication,...
View ArticleIEEE Homeland Security Symposium call for papers
Organizers of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security 2015 have announced a call for technical papers, posters and tutorials. Topics include cyber security; attack...
View ArticleCompetition invites researchers to develop biometric identification solutions...
In an effort to advance the research field of eye movement biometrics, the BioEye 2015 competition gives scientists and researchers the opportunity to use a common database of eye movements recorded...
View ArticleCompetition on biometrics via eye movements opens submission period
The organizing committee of the Competition on Biometrics via Eye Movements (BioEye 2015) has announced that it has begun its submission period, which will run through until March 26 Previously...
View ArticleSonavation CTO receives award from IEEE for ultrasound security...
Biometric ultrasound technology firm Sonavation announced that company CTO Rainer Schmitt has received the 2015 CQR Chairman’s Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE)...
View ArticleHoyos Labs’ Biometrics Open Protocol Standard approved by IEEE
Hoyos Labs announced that the Standards Association of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved standard 2410-2015 or BOPS (Biometrics Open Protocol Standard) as the...
View ArticleIEEE BIOSIG 2016
IEEE BIOSIG 2016 September 21-23, 2016 Damrstadt, Germany IEEE BIOSIG 2016 The 15th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) will take place from September 21 – 23,...
View ArticleUW releases MegaFace facial recognition algorithms benchmarking results
The University of Washington will be releasing initial results from its MegaFace Challenge at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016) on June 30. The MegaFace...
View ArticleBiometrics researcher developing new iris liveness detection technologies
A biometrics researcher specializing in iris “liveness” detection is developing new technologies to ensure that iris scanners won’t be duped by either a high-res photo of the authorized user’s eye or...
View ArticleUMD professor wins IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award
University of Maryland professor Rama Chellappa became the inaugural recipient of the IEEE Biometrics Council Leadership Award on September 6 in Buffalo, New York, at the IEEE Eighth International...
View ArticleIEEE hosting flexible sensors event in Silicon Valley
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) SF Bay Area MEMS and Sensor Chapter is hosting an expert one-day workshop on flexible printed sensor technologies at the San Jose campus of...
View ArticleNIST finds security fatigue endemic among computer users
A new study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that a majority of typical computer users experience “security fatigue” that often leads to risky computing behavior at...
View ArticleIEEE researchers propose new cluster cloud framework for mobile biometrics
Researchers from the The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) created a high-performance cluster cloud framework to better manage the massive amounts of data related to mobile...
View ArticleCompetition on biometrics via eye movements opens submission period
The organizing committee of the Competition on Biometrics via Eye Movements (BioEye 2015) has announced that it has begun its...
View ArticleSonavation CTO receives award from IEEE for ultrasound security...
Biometric ultrasound technology firm Sonavation announced that company CTO Rainer Schmitt has received the 2015 CQR Chairman’s Award from the...
View ArticleHoyos Labs’ Biometrics Open Protocol Standard approved by IEEE
Hoyos Labs announced that the Standards Association of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved standard 2410-2015...
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