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The decision to include iris recognition in India's ambitious UID scheme has been recognised as pivotal in the success of the project…
The entire biometrics community has suffered from vocabulary confusion, especially in large-scale, public procurements. Help is at hand. Read this Jim Wayman article for more…
Easy access to financial services for the unbanked has moved a little closer in Pakistan thanks to voice biometrics.
Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta Airport, located in Indonesia, has implemented new biometric immigration gates.
Here is an in-depth overview of how well biometric technology is performing in India's UID project. And, more crucially, it explains why performance is so good?
The entire biometrics community has suffered from vocabulary confusion, especially in large-scale, public procurements. Help is at hand thanks to a standards initiative looking specifically at Vocabulary Harmonization.
Sci-fi mystery and images of Tom Cruise have led to some bloated and fantastical misconceptions about how biometrics are used. Most notably, it has placed biometrics in a league where they are reviled and misunderstood more than most other technologies on the market today.
Argus Global explore some of those myths.
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the new Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), takes time out to speak with Planet Biometrics. The project to biometrically enrol 1.2 billion people is the most ambitious in the world and, fittingly, he ends with a special message to biometric vendors.
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