Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.
Our Favorite Story of the Week
Can facial recognition be defeated?
The answer is YES! Provided of course that you are willing to look like the guy from Silence of the Lambs.
More Facial Recognition News
Visa seeing the need for biometric authentication for payments
At Kairos, we agree with Visa that as new and innovative methods of paying increase, merchants, card brands, banks and most importantly consumers will need to find ways to authenticate their payments beyond a card, signature and/or PIN.
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More discussion around facial age
>Follow up from last week's story with a live demo. We couldn't get it to work on our pictures, but maybe you will have better luck with the site.
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NIST creates the first Forensic Science Standards Board
>In addition to the Privacy Multistakeholder Process the US government is setting more much-needed standards around biometrics and forensics.
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Facial recognition comes to cats
A new crowd funded project called Bistro will use facial recognition on your cats to monitor your cats' eating habits.
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And dogs too of course...
>Not to leave our other four legged friends out in the cold.
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Kairos Update
What are we working on?
Here at Kairos we love our customers and quite often they return the love right back. A couple of our great customers have created client libraries to use with the Kairos API.
First off we have a fine .NET library from @humbywan.
GitHub Link
And second we have a nice Ruby Gem created by @chrisallick
GitHub Link
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Cole Calistra - @kairoscto
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