[01-07-08] XID Technologies featured in HardwareZone
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A Revolutionary Face Recognition Technology is now in Manila!
AFTER a successful product launch in Manila, Philippines, with all the major dailies and publication having witnessed XID's revolutionary face recognition applications, XID Technologies was featured in HardwareZone Community. HardwareZone is an IT-oriented internet portal which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). The portal provides latest information on technology and contains IT price lists for several countries, product reviews, and forums on a variety of topics, which are the most popular in Singapore.
View the news feature here.
To find out more or purchase Face LogOn Xpress, visit here |
[14-06-08] REVIEW by GearDairy.com: XID Face LogOn Xpress. The Future Is Now!
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Doug Goldring from GearDairy.com reviewed XID's Face LogOn Xpress and he had this to say,
"XID is taking us a huge leap forward in this area with their facial recognition software, Face LogOn XPress..."
"... Well, XID got it right with this one, as I experience an extremely high rate of accurate readings. It also eased the logging on process by allowing you to just stare at a camera for a few second rather than try to come up with a random 15 string of number and numbers. I loved the ease of use and enhanced security of this program."
"What I Liked: Incredible accuracy. Enhances the security of your system. Very easy to setup and use."
Click here for more details on his step-by-step review. To find out more or purchase Face LogOn Xpress, visit here |
[01-03-08] XID Technologies featured in Totally360.com during GCS
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XID Technologies was featured in Totally360.com for the GCS convention.
XID showed its latest face recognition technology for games, "Face Theater" which basically play with your face. You take a picture of yourself and import it into the software and then customize it as you see fit.
Use your 3D face in a game, send as a greeting card, use as screensaver... The possiblities are endless.
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[14-02-08] XID CEO and CTO featured on Engineering TV
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XID Technologies's CEO Mike Holt and CTO Roberto Mariani were both featured on Engineering TV during the 2008 CES demonstration at Las Vegas.
Better feature extraction algorithms aren't the solution to facial recognition error rates. XID Technologies CEO Mike Holt explains a very different approach to the problem, as well as their 3-D overlay technology.
XID Software Technologies has developed 3-D models and a 3-D tracking system for facial recognition with position and expression of the target's face from a single 2 dimensional picture of a person.
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[15-01-08] XID congratulates Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore.
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XID Technologies congratulates Temasek Polytechnic on their official name change from Temasek Information Technology School to Temasek Informatics & IT School.
XID Technologies collaborates closely with Temasek Polytechnic to support the ever continuing growth of IT industry in Singapore.
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[26-11-07] XID featured in Reuters.
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XID Technologies was featured in the November REUTERS special coverage, Mission for James Bond's Q: seek venture capital, after it placed itself among the top five for the Global Security Challenge 2007. It highlighted many experts agree biometrics technology plays a very significant role in security today and will continue to grow in many years to come.
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[08-11-07] Second spot in the Global Security Challenge Finals 2007.
XID placed second amongst other 5 companies during the Global Security Challenge 2007.
[21-08-07] XID wins the Asian Global Security Challenge 2007.
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XID has emerged top winner in the Asian leg of the Global Security Challenge 2007. It will proceed on to the finals to be accessed and vie with four others to claim top position. |
[19-09-05] New Look Access Control Device.
XID's new wall mounted unit features an optional intercom system - see the unit at Global Entrepolis Singapore at Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre, booth F24 from September 27th to 29th.
Designed for controlling access of individuals to areas within buildings and facilities, this new look wall mounted device is an improved design on the previous unit. As for XID's original unit, the device is easily integrated with existing security systems and thus simple to deploy and easy to maintain.
Utilizing XID’s unique, award winning technologies ensures a complete integrated solution that is fast, intuitive and reliable.
“The software behind this new device is a new release of the software we deployed at the now well known immigrant workers dormitory in Singapore,” explain Myles Kendrick, Director at XID. “That system is the worlds largest of its kind and has been in operation for more than one year now. It is operating in a blue-collar environment, outdoors, 24/7; this is a very complex environment so clearly, this new device has solid, robust software behind it.”
“To date, these units have been deployed for customers in the education sector in Singapore and projects are underway in Malaysia, Italy, Israel and Iran,” continues Kendrick.
“Our solutions are deployed either directly by XID or via a chosen system integrator depending on the project size and customer requirements,” says Kendrick. “We are continually looking for channel partners and resellers with specific capabilities in their particular market. This enables us to not only reach a broad base of customers but also to ensure efficient and well maintained solutions for those customers."
A device with fingerprint sensor included is also now available.
[31-08-05] XID Signs Strategic Sales Alliance with Tonson Technologies.
Tonson Technologies LLC is a US based, widely diversified consulting firm dedicated to providing a broad range of integrated solutions for domestic and international markets; particularly in the field of government related information technology systems. Headquartered within the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Tonson Technologies is strategically positioned to provide a multicultural perspective necessary for international marketing and are utilizing their vast, high level global contacts to present XID's technologies and solutions to government bodies around the world.
"We signed the alliance in late August and already the relationship with Tonson is starting to show signs of great promise; one opportunity in the Middle East has surfaced as a result of their business relationships in that region for example," said Myles Kendrick, Director at XID Technologies.
[01-07-05] XID Deploys to Education Sector.
Premier online graduate school in Singapore selects XID's access control solutions to increase security access to their buildings.
Universitas 21 Global installed XID's solution as a way to more safely secure their premises, staff and assets. Even when access is denied to an unauthorized person, XID's system is able to capture and store the face of that person as he/she attempts to access.
"Due to the need to keep academic records secure and private, security is understandably of utmost importance to us and we find that this functionality deters unauthorized people from even making an attempt to access our premises," said Mr. Paul Chan, Manager, Infrastructure & Operations at Universitas 21 Global.
[17-06-05] XID Launches New Access Control Device.
XID's latest product offering is a wall mounted unit that is provided as a complete packaged solution, enabling customers to quickly enhance the security of their facility.
Designed for controlling access of individuals to areas within buildings and facilities, this wall mounted device is easily integrated with existing security systems and thus simple to deploy and easy to maintain.
Utilizing XID’s unique, award winning technologies ensures a complete integrated solution that is fast, intuitive and reliable.
“The software behind this new device is a new release of the software we deployed at the now well known immigrant workers dormitory in Singapore,” explain Myles Kendrick, Director at XID. “That system is the worlds largest of its kind and has been in operation for more than one year now. It is operating in a blue-collar environment, outdoors, 24/7; this is a very complex environment so clearly, this new device has solid, robust software behind it.”
“To date, these units have been deployed for customers in the education sector in Singapore and projects are now underway in Malaysia, Italy and Israel,” continues Kendrick.
The device houses a camera, 4’ TFT monitor and either a card reader or keypad. It is controlled by a separate controller interface supporting four wiegand device connections and eight output relays.
XID also offer kiosk based solutions. These fully mobile, self contained units offer a 15’ LCD monitor making them suitable for scenarios in which it is important to display key information to the user. XID’s kiosks are now in operation in the USA, Canada, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Italy and Croatia.
“Our solutions are deployed either directly by XID or via a chosen system integrator depending on the project size and customer requirements,” says Kendrick. “We are continually looking for channel partners and resellers with specific capabilities in their particular market. This enables us to not only reach a broad base of customers but also to ensure efficient and well maintained solutions for those customers.”
[19-04-05] XID Partners with Digitalembrace Inc.
XID and Digitalembrace signed a partnership agreement, enabling Digitalembrace to distribute XID's face recognition software in Canada and the USA.
Digitalembrace specialize in migration mangement in business enhancing systems and processes and were looking for a partner in the biometric space for sometime. Randy Chinn, Senior Managing Partner: "
Digitalembrace is excited to partner with a proven, innovative facial recognition provider. Now, we can deliver cutting edge security solutions to protect our clients in Canada and the US."
For more information about Digitalembrace Inc, please click here.
[01-04-05] Latest media coverage.
Following the Global Security Asia exhibition and conference, on April 1st XID were on CNBC and in the Straits Times:
- CNBC - "Generation-e" 6:30pm and repeated several times on April 2nd and 3rd
- Straits Times, Singapore, Home section page H12. A similar article was featured on the web version.
[30-03-05] Dr. Mariani speaks at Global Security Asia.
XID together with Malaysian partners IRIS Corporation, recently exhibited at Global Security Asia. On display was XID's new Authentication Kiosk integrated to IRIS's passport reader as well as other biometric products from IRIS and XID's interactive Predictive Face Synthesis.
Speaking at the seminar, Dr.Mariani talked of XID's installation in Singapore that controls access for 6,000 blue-collar workers. He talked about the customer requirements and XID's first hand experiences integrating a face recognition system to such a complicated environment.
Dr. Mariani also highlighted some of the differences between 2D and 3D face recognition systems.
[17-03-05] XID publicly launch new Authentication Kiosk at CeBIT Germany.
XID was one of the many highlights at this years CeBIT exhibition in Germany.
On display at CeBIT, for the first time publicly, was XID’s latest Authentication Kiosk designed primarily for Access Control as well as for registration of visitors/patients at healthcare facilities for example. XID has so far sold their kiosks to the USA, Italy and Singapore and with orders about to be confirmed for Canada and China at the time of writing this news item.
A new innovation, also shown publicly for the first time, was XID’s Image Correction Tool. This innovative tool reconstructs inconsistent facial images. For example, a database may contain faces that are rotated to the left or right - XID’s tool performs frontal reconstruction of these images and produces a frontal image ready for matching.
XID's award winning, add-on face recognition tool, Predictive Face Synthesis, designed to improve the performance of face recognition engines was also on show, as an interactive modular interface.
“Visitors to our stand were primarily system integrators and security solution providers. All were looking for biometric systems and in particular for robust face recognition systems that can be integrated as an API to their existing software solutions; access control/time and attendance suites, registration of visitors/patients, mobile phone authentication ... ” said Myles Kendrick, Director and co-founder of XID.
[05-11-04] XID Featured at European Events.
XID
recently exhibited at Biometrics 2004 in London, at SMAU in Milan and at Sharp Electronics booth at Cartes 2004 in Paris.
At Biometrics 2004, Dr. Mariani presented a case study entitled "A major blue-collar worker facial recognition deployment" that outlined a system in operation in Singapore. To see a video of this system in operation please
click here.
Pictures of XID's technology on display at Cartes 2004:
[18-10-04] XID Featured on BBC World Service.
Shortly after speaking at Biometrics 2004, XID's CTO Dr.Mariani was interviewed by Tracey Logan of BBC World Service.
[13-10-04] XID Granted a TEC Innovator Award.
At Singapore's"Public Service for the 21 Century (PS21) ExCEL Convention and Award Ceremony 2004" on October 13th, XID received a TEC Innovator Award from Mr. Lim Siong Guan, Head of Civil Service in Singapore.
TEC (The Enterprise Challenge) is an initiative from the Prime Minister's Office of Singapore and TECs Innovator Award is given out for each approved TEC proposal to recognize individuals/teams as TEC innovators - in the case of XID, for their project “Human Identification through combination of Face & Tag recognition system” at the Singapore National Eye Centre.
Recipients of TEC awards are approved by the TEC Panel.
[12-10-04] XID Exhibit at Global Entrepolis 2004 in Singapore.
XID exhibited for three days at Global Entrepolis 2004 in Singapore.
XID's core predictive face synthesis technology was on display and the new tag system under trial at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) generated much attention. The trial is supported by The Enterprise Challenge (TEC), an initiative from the Prime Minister's Office of Singapore and aims to automate registration and shorten waiting time for SNEC's patients.
[13-08-04] XID Featured on Front Page of Computerworld.
The August 13 - 26 issue featured a front page article referring to Dr.Mariani's
nomination to the World Technology Awards.
[23-07-04] Nomination for World Technology Award.
The World Technology Network announced that Dr Roberto Mariani, CTO of XID Technologies Pte Ltd, has been selected as a nominee for the IT Software category of this year's World Technology Awards.
The awards are being held in association with Nasdaq, Microsoft, TIME magazine, Science magazine and CNN and the winner will be announced at the World Technology Awards gala in San Francisco on October 8th 2004.
[14-05-04] XID Featured in Computerworld.
This week’s edition of Computerworld ran an article called “Capturing Face Values” that featured XID’s Immigrant Workers Dormitory system.
[08-05-04] XID sign Strategic Alliance Agreement with VoIUM Communications Pte Ltd.
VoIUM is a wireless technology enabler with vertical focus in delivery Just-In-Time Information globally and M2M business.
Mr. Benjamin Ng, Managing Director, VoIUM Communications Pte Ltd said: “We are indeed honored and very much look forward to this partnership with XID. Every once in a while, something comes along that simply changes the rules. XID’s patented facial recognition technology is one of the rare ones that we have had the pleasure of working with. This shift paradigm will take the world of security conscious government, airports, and even high-risk buildings by storm. It is not only fast to implement and low cost, but it also allows for the many different moods and angles of the individual. I personally believe this partnership will bring great value to our customers and future security consideration.”
For more information about VoIUM, surf
www.voium.net.
The VoIUM Group is a subsidiary of US-based China Voice Corp,
www.chinavoicecorp.com
[04-05-04] XID Confirmed Participants to Biometrics 2004.
At Biometrics 2002, Dr. Mariani’s technology won an award for Technological Innovation.
Since then, the technology has made huge advancements, XID have filed for new patents and have commercialized their technology.
Dr. Mariani is now confirmed to speak at Biometrics 2004, held on October 13th to 15th.
For several years, this annual event has been growing impressively and is one of the most important biometric events of the year. From border control to customer facing initiatives, from signature verification to face recognition, Biometrics 2004 provides complete coverage of the latest technological advancements and applications.
The title of Dr.Mariani's presentation is: "Case Study: A Major Blue-collar Worker Facial Recognition Deployment" and will outline the Immigrant Workers Dormitory deployment in Singapore.
[02-05-04] XID Featured as Lead Story in Biometric Watch.
Biometric Watch featured XID’s Immigrant Workers Dormitory system as lead story in their May edition.
[06-04-04] XID Featured on CNBC India.
CNBC India featured XID’s system deployment at an Immigrant Workers Dormitory in Singapore. Additionally, XID’s CEO V.Sridhar and Director Myles Kendrick, were both featured during interviews at XID’s headquarters in Singapore.
To see a video clip of the system in operation, please
click here.
[April 2004] The world's largest, fully commercial deployment of face recognition technology.
XID complete the installation of what they believe to be the worlds largest, fully commercial deployment of face recognition technology. The system operates outdoors, day and night, rain or shine and controls access for 5,500 workers.
The workers do not speak a common language and are usually very tired, impatient and dirty as they return from work to enter the dormitory. Each worker enters/exits the dormitory 3 to 4 times each day meaning that the system is controlling around 20,000 entries per day.
Since deployment, the number of resident workers has grown to 6,000. The management of the dormitory recently bought an upgrade from XID, in order to accommodate the additional workers.
To see a video clip of the system in operation, please
click here.
[28-10-03] XID a Finalist at the Global Entrepolis @ Singapore Awards 2003.
Global Entrepolis is a meeting ground of the world's finest enterprising minds, with an international showcase of leading edge technologies and innovations.
Dr. Mariani’s (CTO and Founder of XID Technologies) face recognition technology was amongst the selected finalists in the Far Eastern Economic Review's Asian Innovation Awards which honour Asia's emerging technopreneur, based on innovation, technology and the commercial potential of its business product/process.
The prestigious award, was presented at a gala dinner in Singapore by prime minister, Goh Chok Tong.
[10-10-03] XID’s Dr. Mariani speaks at Safety and Security Asia.
Since 1991, the Safety and Security Asia conference has served as a dedicated forum for highlighting global trends and issues and has acted as an important resource venue for security practitioners and decision-makers from the region.
During Dr. Mariani’s presentation at the conference, he covered many aspects of face recognition technology from a complexity analysis to sensitivity of matching algorithms.
XID also exhibited their latest technology development at the exhibition, together with partner Miltrade Technologies Pte Ltd. XID and Miltrade collaborated on the development of infra-red cameras incorporating face recognition technology. The resulting product was demonstrated at XID’s exhibition booth.
[08-10-03] XID Ports Face Recognition Technology to Infra-Red Camera.
In collaboration with Miltrade Technologies, a technology partner of XID in the
infra-red camera space, XID ported its technology to an infra-red camera
provided by Miltrade. Having achieved this, XID’s face recognition system is able to perform more accurately and efficiently, particularly in low light conditions. The system, known as MTech FacialScan, will be demonstrated Safety & Security Asia on October 8th to 10th.
[Oct 2003] XID files new patent.
Designed to secure access and prevent security breaches within a facility, XID’s invention, known as XID WorkWear, (link to WorkWear) is an innovative biometric solution that enables a two factor authentication in environments where traditional smart card based access control solutions are not feasible - where RFID frequencies interfere with sensitive machinery in hospitals (link to healthcare) for example or for temporary access (link to temporary access) at seminars, sporting events etc when smart cards are simply too expensive for temporary issue.
XID WorkWear combines XID’s face recognition technology with its tag recognition technology. Simple tags replace the smart cards; the tags contain no electronic components and can be printed simply and quickly at an exhibition registration counter, or sewn onto a uniform for example.
[15-08-03] XID’s Dr. Mariani Speaks at Asia Pacific Enterprise Security 2003.
At a Marcus Evans organized regional symposium, Dr. Mariani gave a presentation titled “How Biometrics Can Help Secure Your Organization”. His presentation gave an overview of biometric technologies, their positive and negative aspects, performance measurements, best practices ….
[July 2003] XID Embark on Five City Tour of Asia with Sun Microsystems.
Impressed by XID’s technologies’ and ability to speedily port them to Linux and embedded Linux, Sun Microsystems invited XID to participate in its “Adopting Open Technology for Open Government” road show in July 2003.
Covering five capital cities, the event targeted the government and law enforcement markets in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and India. There, XID demonstrated its technology with Sun.
Mr. Hong-Eng Ho -Director for Industry Sales Development (Government) Sun Microsystems, South Asia- made a presentation in each city, during which he highlighted XID’s technologies. Attendees visited XID’s demonstration booth after the presentation.
“With more than 20 years of experience working with best of breed partners to deliver proven solutions to customers, Sun Microsystems is constantly building successful partnerships with companies providing leading edge technologies. XID offers innovative face recognition technologies and we are confident of a long, fruitful partnership.”
Lionel Lim, Vice President & Managing Director, Asia South, Sun Microsystems
