Reinforcing safety with "Bio-IDiom" biometric authentication
TOKYO -Friday, April 27th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NEC Corporation (NEC) (TOKYO: 6701) today announced that its iris recognition technology achieved the highest matching accuracy evaluation in the recent Iris Exchange (IREX,*1) IX evaluations of automated iris recognition algorithms performed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Iris recognition technology is a biometrics identifier that uses patterns from the iris, the donut-like tissue that surrounds the pupil. In recent years, this technology has been adopted by systems that require large-scale matching, mainly for organizations and companies, since it is possible to quickly provide highly accurate authentication with devices that do not require physical contact.
From the standpoint of privacy protection and security enhancement, government agencies in particular are in growing need of
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