Face Mining

"Accurate face recognition is coming," says Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, a face recognition start-up spun out from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Biometric - Ear Noise

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a system that can authenticate your identity by eliciting and listening to specific sounds emitted by your ear. The concept is based on otoacoustic emissions (OAE), which are sounds emitted by the mammalian inner ear in response to an audio stimulation. Their existence was first demonstrated experimentally by David Kemp in 1978 but, since then, the noises have not found an application beyond testing for hearing defects.

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Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body

The trio of bio-medicine, technology, and wireless communication are in the midst of a merger that will easily bring continuous, 24×7 monitoring of several crucial bodily functions.



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Artificial muscles

Artificial muscles are plastics that change shape and size under electrical stimulation. Because they are plastics—that is, polymers—they are light and can be cheap, pliable, quiet, and shatterproof. Also, they can be designed for particular properties, filled with sensors and other components, shaped for specific actuators, and manufactured on scales both macro and micro. Unlike most active materials, such as semiconductors and shape-memory alloys, however, these electroactive polymers work according to a variety of principles, offering different tradeoffs of power, extensibility, reaction time, and other qualities.

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Neuromorphic integrated circuits

Electronic chips that mimic neurobiological circuits related to visual processing.

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Life after death

If you can hang on for another 30 years or so, you might have an alternative to death: being a ghost in a machine. You'll be able to upload your mind — your thoughts, memories, and personality — to a computer.

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Voice biometrics

Some of UK’s largest banks are watching the development of voice biometric technology. They are waiting for the right time to begin implementation of the technology for customer service systems to replace pins and passwords.

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Fingerprint study offers robotics insights

As the finger passes over a surface, nerve endings in the skin detect vibrations that arise when the finger touches something, the study demonstrates. These nerve endings, called Pacinian corpuscles, are connected to sensory neurons, which signal the brain.

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The Waterpod: a Floating Eco-Habitat

The Waterpod is a visionary, floating habitat set to launch on May 1st.

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Bees' vision to help intelligence systems

A study revealing honeybees can learn to recognise human faces even when seen from different viewpoints has raised the possibility of
improving artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition.

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State-of-the-Art Biometrics Excellence Roadmap, the FBI initiative

The FBI released on Tuesday a detailed study of the advancement of different kinds of biometrics. Volume Three is still under development.

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