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The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has urged both the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Communication and Department of Communications and Digital Technologies to ensure consequence management against officials identified to have acted corruptly during the procurement of the Automated Biometric Identification System (Abis).
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US Army Wants Face Recognition at Base Gates
It s seeking a camera that can do the job through a rainy windshield at night.
The Army wants to make sure drivers entering bases through automated checkpoints are, in fact, who they claim to be, and is developing a new biometric camera system to assist.
The military branch issued a call on its Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, broad agency announcement a contract vehicle used for working with small businesses on phased, iterative development programs seeking early-stage design for a camera system able to pull usable images of drivers approaching checkpoints and matching those photos against a facial biometric database.
23 February 2021 16:41 GMT
Ideal Innovations, Inc. (I3), announced today that it is beginning a rollout of its Facial Identification Proficiency Test (PT). The Proficiency Test complements their industry leading Facial Examination Training.
The new PT is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) National Accreditation Board (ANAB) and fulfills the requirement of ISO/IEC 17043:2010 in the field of Proficiency Test Providers. The PT is aimed at measuring and confirming the skill sets of the practitioners.
The test will evaluate skills and strategies when conducting facial comparisons. It is designed for those who are completing facial comparisons as part of their regular job duties either as a facial reviewer (one who adjudicates candidate lists) or a facial examiner (one who conducts a formal systematic facial comparison) and have been determined to be competent (as reviewers or examiners) by their respective agency, organization, or other entity.
10 February 2021 17:26 GMT
Aware, a leading global provider of biometrics software products, solutions, and services, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020.
Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020 was $3.4 million, an improvement from $2.5 million in the third quarter of 2020 and $2.5 million in the same year-ago period. The 38% sequential increase in revenue and 40% year-over-year increase in revenue was primarily due to higher perpetual license and subscription revenues.
Operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2020 was $1.9 million, compared to operating loss of $2.5 million in the third quarter of 2020 and operating loss of $1.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2019. The higher operating loss compared with the prior year period was primarily due to higher operating expenses, including investments in sales and engineering resources to drive growth in new product areas and expenses related to the acquisition of Maxar Technol