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Crossing the Chasm: The XID Technologies Story
Technology Management for the Global Future, 2006: PICMET 2006, 8-13 July 2006, Istanbul, Turkey: Proceedings
  • Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU, Singapore Management University
  • Roberto MARIANI
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2006
Abstract

XID Technologies is a face processing start up company built initially around a disruptive face recognition technology. The technology innovation came from Kent Ridge Digital Labs, a publicly funded software research laboratory in Singapore. Face recognition is the least intrusive and harmless among the various biometric solutions available in the market. The basic approach to human face recognition is to identify a robust feature set that was unique enough to differentiate amongst the many millions of human faces that the system was required to verify. The technology innovation used by XID framed the problem differently and thereby overcame the challenges posed by poor lighting and tilted or rotated heads.XID developed a pilot application that was in an undiscovered market. This new and yet undiscovered market gave the young company a protection from established face recognition solution vendors focused on well established biometrics markets. XID was emboldened to explore developing solutions for other markets once its initial solutions were accepted. It has now several parallel products under development even as its main offering is being brought to market by some of the large solution integrators. The paper describes the transition of XID from a young one product start up to its present position as a technology and new solution generator.

ISBN
9781890843144
Identifier
10.1109/PICMET.2006.296846
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PICMET.2006.296846
Citation Information
Arcot Desai NARASIMHALU and Roberto MARIANI. "Crossing the Chasm: The XID Technologies Story" Technology Management for the Global Future, 2006: PICMET 2006, 8-13 July 2006, Istanbul, Turkey: Proceedings (2006) p. 2492 - 2498
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