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Animetrics chosen by Duos Technologies as its core engine for facial recognition

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Animetrics and Duos Technologies, Inc. have partnered to make Animetrics’ technology the core engine for the process of facial recognition in Duos applications. . Duos will employ Animetrics 2Dto3D face biometrics technology in its ongoing development of gateway applications for its proprietary video analytics. Duos Technologies, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, offers systems based on its proprietary object detection and behavioral analysis software. Animetrics Inc., headquartered in Conway, NH, is a developer of 3D imaging for facial biometric systems. The Animetrics90 product family is based on the company’s core algorithms comprised of five patent-pending 2Dto3D face creation technologies allowing for pose and lighting invariant face recognition across a broad range of operating conditions. [end] 

Luxand announced release of a free, downloadable version of its Blink! facial recognition software. The software provides as a biometric-based login service Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems via a user’s regular webcam. In addition to authenticating the individual accessing the computer, Blink! also takes and records a still image of each person trying to access the computer to help prevent unauthorized access, and touts the ability to correctly recognize stored faces despite poor lighting conditions or basic changes in a user’s look such as glasses or hair cuts.  

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Animetrics, a developer of biometric technology and products, has been awarded a set of patents for facial recognition system and methods. The patents includes generation of image databases for multi-featured objects, and viewpoint-invariant image matching and generation of 3D models from 2D imagery.

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Animetrics, a developer of face recognition-based biometric systems, has announced it has been awarded three new patents for technology and methods used in its systems.

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Animetrics has announced the release of a new facial recognition authentication service available on certain mobile phones.

The service, called FaceR CredentialME, is available on devices using the Android, Windows Mobile and RIM operating systems on the Sprint 3G or 4G networks and was launched in conjunction with Troy Security Solutions, a mobile products and solutions provider.

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Biometric Intelligence & Identification Technologies has announced it has been awarded a contract with the Massachusetts Sheriffs’ Association (MSA) for providing facial recognition systems to each county’s sheriff’s department as well as a number of individual police departments in the state.

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A facial recognition system developed by California-based biometric technology developer Airborne Biometrics Group (ABG) is seeing use in a number of industries including government, casinos, transportation and corporations, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal article.

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