NEC has developed a compact face and iris multimodal biometric authentication technology that can be deployed for a wide range of applications. With this technology, simply connecting a camera module to an existing PC or tablet terminal will enable high-speed and high-precision authentication of tens of millions of people, both indoors and outdoors. In the future, the company plans to continue developing and demonstrating this technology, aiming to provide it within 2026, with an eye on applications such as payment and entrance/exit management in the finance, retail, and entertainment industries.

Biometric authentication is becoming more widespread around the world. In finance and payment, two-factor authentication is performed by combining presentation of a card and entry of a password, but there are concerns that cards and passwords may be forgotten or stolen, and there is a growing demand for secure identity verification without using these.

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