Know about the various advanced biometrics forms of security measures, from ear and nose analysis to palm recognition
Learn about the most accurate forms of biometrics, from ear analysis to palm recognition.
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Someday losing your keys won’t be possible.
From fingerprints to DNA, unique physical characteristics called biometrics are replacing outdated security measures.
As with iris recognition which uses infrared scans to turn the patterns of your iris into a mathematical representation, security experts often look at the face for identity clues that can act as a kind if living passport.
Ears, for example, have been a valuable biometric since 2005. Using a technique called the image ray transform, light rays are used to highlight tubular and circular structures of the ear. Thanks to their complexity, and from the fact that they don't with change aside from growing, here biometrics can achieve 99.6 percent success in identification, even when partially concealed by hair or glasses.
Another program called Photo Face is used by scientists at the University of Bath, to scan the 3-D shape of noses, break them into one of six categories, and identify them based on three characteristics. Because the nose is so prominent on the face, and not subject to change based on facial expressions, nasal biometrics are proven to be surprisingly robust, though still in the early stages.
Of course the biggest concern with biometrics is that, someone will cut off one of your body parts and use it to steal a secret government weapon, or log onto your computer. In this scenario, palms are where it's at. Using near-infrared light to read the pattern of veins, a software called
Palm Secure can identify individual palms with less than .008 percent false positives. And unlike other biometrics, it won't work if someone cuts off your hand, because if they do, the severed hand loses blood pressure, and the veins change shape, like an automatic self-destruct.
Just a little bonus the manufacturers thought to mention, because in a biometrics future, the only thing that needs securing is you.
From fingerprints to DNA, unique physical characteristics called biometrics are replacing outdated security measures.
As with iris recognition which uses infrared scans to turn the patterns of your iris into a mathematical representation, security experts often look at the face for identity clues that can act as a kind if living passport.
Ears, for example, have been a valuable biometric since 2005. Using a technique called the image ray transform, light rays are used to highlight tubular and circular structures of the ear. Thanks to their complexity, and from the fact that they don't with change aside from growing, here biometrics can achieve 99.6 percent success in identification, even when partially concealed by hair or glasses.
Another program called Photo Face is used by scientists at the University of Bath, to scan the 3-D shape of noses, break them into one of six categories, and identify them based on three characteristics. Because the nose is so prominent on the face, and not subject to change based on facial expressions, nasal biometrics are proven to be surprisingly robust, though still in the early stages.
Of course the biggest concern with biometrics is that, someone will cut off one of your body parts and use it to steal a secret government weapon, or log onto your computer. In this scenario, palms are where it's at. Using near-infrared light to read the pattern of veins, a software called
Palm Secure can identify individual palms with less than .008 percent false positives. And unlike other biometrics, it won't work if someone cuts off your hand, because if they do, the severed hand loses blood pressure, and the veins change shape, like an automatic self-destruct.
Just a little bonus the manufacturers thought to mention, because in a biometrics future, the only thing that needs securing is you.
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