Korea's biometric security technologies chosen as global standards
Two mobile biometric authentication technologies developed by Korean researchers and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) have been chosen as global standards at the ITU-T SG17 Q1 Telebiometrics meeting in Geneva, the agency said Sunday.
As well as the two mobile biometric authentication technologies, a multimodal biometric signal verification technology has also been suggested and approved as a global standard, according to KISA. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion supported the development of these technologies.
"We expect that the approval of the mobile biometric authentication and multimodal biometric signal verification technologies as global standards will boost the security and convenience of instant payment services while leading global standardization of financial technology services," said Kim Jae-sung, a biometric authentication technology researcher at KISA.
