Adam H. Sparks Feb 20
"Bayesian Ordinal Regression for Crop Development and Disease Assessment" a slide deck by Dr Zhanglong Cao presented at Biometrics in the Bush Capital conference last November. A fresh look at analysing ordinal agronomic data. https://biometricsociety.org.au/conference2025/slides/Contributed/S5B3-Zhanglong%20Cao/S5B3-Zhanglong%20Cao.html#/title-slide #RStats #Statstodon #Bayesian #AgData #Biometry #Agriculture
Bayesian Ordinal Regression for Crop Development and Disease Assessment

_muApr 12, 2025

#DE

CCC fordert Notbremse für den Überwachungskatalog im Koalitionsvertrag

"CDU, CSU und SPD lassen alle Hemmungen fallen. Sie planen #Massenüberwachung auf gleich drei Ebenen: Telekommunikations-, Autokennzeichen- und #Biometriedaten. Die alten und neuen riesigen Datenhalden sollen mit „automatisierter Datenrecherche und -analyse“ durchkämmt werden dürfen. Staatliches #Hacken soll ebenfalls ausgeweitet werden.

Der Koalitionsvertrag, den die schwarz-schwarz-rote Regierung abschließen will, strotzt so vor Überwachungsvorhaben, dass jeder Einzelne betroffen sein wird. Ob man im Netz kommuniziert, #Auto fährt oder Fotos mit Gesichtern ins Netz stellt: All das soll massenhaft aufgezeichnet und bei Bedarf ausgewertet werden."

(...)

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2025/ueberwachungshoelle

"Der #CCC ruft daher SPD-Mitglieder dazu auf, den Koalitionsvertrag abzulehnen. Die Abstimmung läuft vom 15. bis 29. April und ist, Stand jetzt, das einzige wirkliche Hindernis, das die Koalition noch verhindern könnte." (https://t.me/jugendinfo/6709)

#uberwachen #surveillance #vorratsdatenpeichung #biometry #spd @SPDde @CCC

CCC | CCC fordert Notbremse für den Überwachungskatalog im Koalitionsvertrag

Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.

Oliver BrendelApr 1, 2025
Traceability of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur logs: the Biomtrace database was created with the aim of developing algorithms for the biometric traceability of logs, involving artificial intelligence approaches that require large databases.
https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13595-025-01276-9
#Forests #AI #Biometry #Wood #Woodtracing
Traceability of oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. and Quercus robur L.) logs: the Biomtrace database - Annals of Forest Science

Key message The Biomtrace database contains 33,390 RGB images of the butt end cross-section of 5135 French oak logs. Each log was photographed several times with different camera orientations during an initial shooting session. For more than half of the logs, additional photos were taken at least 3 weeks after the first photo session. Cross-sections were segmented on all the images using the PointRend convolutional neural network. Spatial calibration was carried out by a specific algorithm using a checkerboard pattern present in each image. This image database was created with the aim of developing algorithms for the biometric traceability of logs, involving artificial intelligence approaches that require large databases. But other applications are also possible, such as the automatic extraction of information on the size and quality of logs. The Biomtrace database is available at https://doi.org/10.57745/9DBCL4 , and associated metadata are available at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/feda0a0e-041a-4190-9a73-5159b10ff0f0 .

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Markus FeilnerFeb 6, 2025
#Epiderminalization:
#Biometry is nothing more than the assumption that the look of someone tells you more truths about him/her/them than the words that come from their mouth. The Skin is more credible than what they say.
#PenisDetectionMachine:
"Gender Recognition by #AI is always built on the premise that someone else can recognize your gender by looking at you."
https://youtu.be/AaU6tI2pb3M
AI is an Ethical Nightmare

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TEDICSep 25, 2024

Did you know that a technology could keep you off the field? #NotWithMyFace

The use of facial recognition technologies in football stadiums is already a reality in Paraguay. This raises many questions and concerns: What are the risks of this technology? Who controls our biometric data? For what purposes? If I haven’t done anything wrong, why are the

https://www.tedic.org/en/notwithmyface/

#Blog #DigitalCampaigns #PersonalData #biometry #FacialRecognition #fanID #privacidad #Privacy

Did you know that a technology could keep you off the field? #NotWithMyFace

The use of facial recognition technologies in football stadiums is already a reality in Paraguay. This raises many questions and concerns: What are the risks of this technology? Who controls our biometric data? For what purposes? If I haven’t done anything wrong, why are they watching me? These are

TEDIC
stoneheadJul 4, 2024

Today, #ukelection #ukelection2024
Two posts from elsewhere:
https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need
"Worryingly, around 45% of Brits think a polling card is sufficient as ID at the polling station, according to poll for @BylineTimes , even while the polling card itself clearly tells the opposite.
People need to show valid photo ID. Spread the word..."
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/17/large-numbers-of-brits-are-still-misinformed-about-voter-id-and-it-could-see-them-blocked-from-the-ballot-box/
(via Josiah Mortimer)

"On BBC Radio Scotland this morning they were discussing people being turned away if they no longer resemble the photo on their ID. It's going to turn nasty tomorrow. It's not practical at all."
Please welcome the common problems of #biometry, which sucks as *any* 100% reliable security mechanism.

How to vote

An overview of voting in the UK, including voting in person, postal and proxy voting, and voting if you're abroad.

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Adam H. SparksSep 20, 2023
Great to see our biometricians being recognised for their contributions to our organisation’s work! #biometry #statistics
Erik JonkerSep 5, 2023
Very interesting, palm identification, more reliable then iris identification, not trained on personal but synthetic data, if it works as advertised Amazon has made something great.
https://youtu.be/r_zsS9daZZs?si=jAUduIyffvJMRhqy
#AI #identification #biometry #Amazon
How generative AI helped train Amazon One to recognize your palm

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Show threadMarkus Feilner (has moved)Mar 19, 2023
@escamoteur ... but that's not the worst failure of #biometry . The worst is: You have an unlimited amount of passphrases or keys. But each biometric feature only exists once. If stolen/compromised, it cannot be used again or re-created. It's gone. :-)
Markus Feilner (has moved)Mar 19, 2023
I may repeat myself over and over again, but even after three (?) decades, #biometry still is wrong. It's not a security-enhancing feature, it's a feature for lazy people who are not interested in security. #toldyouso.
(Danke, Fefe)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-system-used-to-verify-identity-by-centrelink-can-be-fooled-by-ai
AI can fool voice recognition used to verify identity by Centrelink and Australian tax office

Exclusive: Voiceprint program used by millions of Australians to access data held by government agencies shown to have a serious security flaw

The Guardian