Interspeech and AVSP 2007
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under biometrics, conference, research, speech | Leave a Comment
I recently attended two speech related conference over in Europe. It seems I like my international conferences in twos. The first conference was the Interspeech 2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium, and the second was the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) 2007 near Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands. Both were good experiences and will be [...]
Read More..>>Google Portrait and Sebastien Marcel interview
Posted on June 18, 2007 - Filed Under IDIAP, biometrics, face recognition, research | Leave a Comment
Have you seen Google Portrait? It is actually by Sebastien Marcel at IDIAP, not Google, but it is a nice little application of face detection. Basically you can type anything you like into the search box, and the site will search Google Images for your search term, and return any faces it finds in the [...]
Read More..>>MMUA and ICASSP 2006
Posted on July 4, 2006 - Filed Under biometrics, conference, research, speech | 2 Comments
I recently attended two signal processing conferences in Toulouse, France, so I thought I’d throw a little writeup here to let everyone know what it was like. The Second Workshop on Multimodal User Authentication (MMUA 2006), which I submitted my paper to, was a small intimate workshop, while the 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, [...]
Read More..>>Problems with Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
Posted on March 7, 2006 - Filed Under biometrics, fingerprint, security | Leave a Comment
Apparently the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader transmits the fingerprint images to the computer un-encrypted. Which is interesting because the technology it is licensed from has encryption built in, Microsoft apparently has just turned it off. Personally I don’t think it is a big deal anyway, as you could just lift a fingerprint from the reader anyway.
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Biodynamic Signatures
Posted on March 7, 2006 - Filed Under biometrics, security | Leave a Comment
Apparently you can use your heart beat as a biometric identifier.
The device - which looks like small computer mouse with two metal contacts, when touched for a few seconds using one finger from each hand to complete the circuit, measures several factors in the heartbeat to record the “biodynamic signature” - a combination of electrical [...]
Cancelable Biometrics
Posted on February 25, 2006 - Filed Under biometrics, research | Leave a Comment
When you find out that your credit card number has been compromised, you can easily cancel it and obtain a new number. Same with passwords, keys and many other forms of security available. So what can you do if your biometric has been compromised? Use a different finger?
Cancelable biometrics refers to a way of designing [...]
Multifinger biometrics
Posted on June 30, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, fingerprint | Leave a Comment
jkOnTheRun points to BiometricPIN system, which improves upon existing single-fingerprint readers by jointly recognising a number of fingers and the sequence that they are tapped in. This should reduce the spoofability of your biometrics, but I’m not sure it is a complete solution.
Read More..>>Bloggers vs Locks
Posted on May 19, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, fingerprint, lockpick | 1 Comment
You’d thing the blogosphere was out to get lock makers, but seeing as how pointing out flaws in products designed to provide security is a good thing, I’m OK with it.
You may remember that you can use a bic pen to open bicycle locks, well now you can use a small roll of cardboard to [...]
Caesars Palace to launch guest biometrics
Posted on April 25, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, security | Leave a Comment
You probably already know I think this is a bad idea:
Pride believes the move to fingerprint biometrics makes it more convenient for customers who need not worry about lost keys.
Yeah, lets just start handing out our biometric information to anyone in the name of convenience. This just means that the security of any one application [...]
‘OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor’ for Mobile Phones
Posted on April 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, face recognition, security | Leave a Comment
I found this on Engadget a couple of days ago, and thought it might be interesting to some people: OMRON Demonstrates ‘OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor’ for Mobile Phones at Security Show Japan 2005
The new system features face-recognition technology for camera-enabled cell phones and other devices as an alternative to passwords or fingerprint scanners for [...]