Innovators of financial risk management

The Micro finance Institutions working at the grassroots levels of the country are creating opportunities for farmers, house wives and the under-educated millennial. These institutions provide these resource deficient people, a potential new horizons which they would have never dreamt of. Creating opportunities at this level is way easier said than done. Alexandre Dumas has …

Could building systems to track us on the streets improve privacy?

Extending the state's ability to track you via the millions of CCTV cameras that watch our streets every day would generally be perceived as an erosion of privacy. In fact, the opposite could be true, says one of the men building the computer systems to automate CCTV monitoring in cities around world. Cyrille Bataller is …

Facial Recognition For On-the-field and In-the-office Employees

A facial recognition system is a computer application for automatically identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. One of the ways to do this is by comparing selected facial features from the image and a facial database. It is typically used in security systems and can be compared to other biometrics such as fingerprint or eye iris recognition systems. There are numerous biometric security systems in the world. These biometric systems are well …