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Griaule Biometrics wins FVC 2006 competition
Apr-25-07
High-tech Brazilian start-up created the world's most accurate fingerprint recognition algorithm (Campinas, São Paulo) - Griaule Biometrics, a provider of fingerprint recognition technology for integrators, won the most important competition in biometrics area, the Fingerprint Verification Competition, in its 4th biannual edition, FVC 2006.
Griaule Biometrics algorithms were the most precise in the "open" category. All the industry, more than 150 companies, developers and academics, applied for the competition, while 53 were able to submit algorithms or finish the tests.
According to the FVC website, FVC received great attention both from academic and industrial biometric communities. It established a common benchmark, allowing developers to unambiguously compare their algorithms, and provided an overview of the state-of-the-art in fingerprint recognition. The continuous advances in the field of biometric systems and, in particular, in fingerprint-based systems require that performance evaluation of biometric systems be carried out at regular intervals.
Griaule CEO, Iron Daher, says that Griaule's vision is to provide the basis for a key-less and card-less world of convenience. In the near future any individual will use biometrics ten or more times daily when opening the car, gain access to the office, logon in network, computer systems or internet, cashing at ATM, paying with credit cards, attending the gym, checking-in at airports or hotels. Despite much associated with security, the main use of biometrics is to provide convenience and gains in productivity.
Additional information on FVC 2006 is available on the web at http://bias.csr.unibo.it/fvc2006/results/Open_resultsAvg.asp.
About Griaule Biometrics
Having its R&D headquarters in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, Griaule is linked to State University of Campinas, one of the largest universities in the Americas, recognized by the excellence of its education and research. This makes Griaule a company committed to original research, offering the product of its own technology.
During the past three years the group of about 20 researchers and developers from Griaule Biometrics and Unicamp successfully created and implemented the technologies named StarSensor and RidgeTrack. StarSensor was first tried for spacial applications to find a satellite position based on the its relative position to the stars. RidgeTrack is an simple and intuitive approach for recognition using the same way fingerprint experts do instead of math formulas for uniquely state a person identity.
Griaule Biometrics, formerly Griaule Tecnologia, is specialized in biometric technologies focusing fingerprint and face recognition intended to be used in conventional or public safety applications. It provides technology for companies like Intel, Eastman-Kodak, Diebold-Procomp and François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciare. It has received six certifications from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation for its WSQ algorithms and ranked the 8th company in the Large Scale Test of Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation FpVTE 2003, conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST).
Griaule was awarded with grants from R&D Brazilian institutions such as Fapesp, Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo, Finep, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos and CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.
About Unicamp
A healthy balance between research and teaching, as well as between pure and applied science, has made the State University of Campinas, Unicamp, one of the most distinguished Brazilian academic institutions. Unicamp combines its youth to a strong experience in producing new knowledge in virtually all areas. It offers 52 undergraduate courses in different areas and 58 graduate courses. In 2007, this segment obtained the best evaluation among Brazilian universities by the National Coordination for the Improvement of Graduate Professionals (CAPES). The main objective of the graduate courses is the scientific, technological, cultural, and artistic production aiming to qualify high standard researchers and professionals. In effect, today, the University concentrates 15% of the total scientific production in this country and approximately 10% of the graduate courses. The result is its capability to maintain areas of scientific and technological compatibility with the main research centers in the world, through numerous international cooperation agreements.
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Griaule Biometrics - Brazil
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13083-755, Campinas, SP
+55 (19) 3289-2108
http://www.griaule.com
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