Securus Technologies Adds Advanced Features to Its Industry-Leading Investigative Analytics Product

DALLAS, Oct. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Securus Technologies, a leading provider of civil and criminal justice technology solutions for public safety, investigation, corrections and monitoring, announced today that it has deployed exciting enhancements to its THREADS™ product, which utilizes sophisticated big data analytics to provide actionable intelligence and focused leads for investigators.

Securus Technologies continues to drive technological innovation through identifying and delivering solutions serving the evolving needs of investigators.  Enhancements of the THREADS™ 2.0 release include a redesigned linkage chart with updated visual presentation and improved speed in rendering and manipulation; new Data Import Tools creating uniformity in the import functionality of external and internal data; added capability to import inmate financial transactions in addition to traditional communication details and cell forensics; and improved user control of the Workspace feature.   

"Securus is at the forefront of providing technological solutions desperately needed by our public safety, law enforcement and corrections agency customers," said Robert ("Bob") Pickens, President of Securus Technologies, Inc.  "We continue to seek out opportunities to help our customers do their jobs better and easier, and the THREADS™ 2.0 release does just that.  These enhancements greatly assist investigators, who are exceedingly pressed with less time and resources to uncover critical information for preventing and solving crime."

Kelly Solid, General Manager and acting Product Manager of THREADS™ added, "Even before the 2.0 release, THREADS™ was the most powerful analytical tool on the market.  We have delivered some noteworthy enhancements with the latest release, and are committed to continued development of features that support our customers' need to operate with increased efficiency and effectiveness."

About Securus Technologies
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serving more than 2,600 public safety, law enforcement and corrections agencies and over 1,000,000 inmates across North America, Securus Technologies is committed to serve and connect by providing emergency response, incident management, public information, investigation, verification, communication, information management, inmate self-service, and monitoring products and services in order to make our world a safer place to live. Securus Technologies focuses on connecting what matters™. To learn more about our full suite of civil and criminal justice technology solutions, please visit www.securustech.net.

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Stephen Ritter Joins Emotient as Senior Vice President of Product Development

SAN DIEGO, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Emotient, the leading provider of facial expression analysis software, today announced that Stephen Ritter joined the company as Senior Vice President of Product Development. Stephen brings extensive engineering management experience from successful start-ups and larger enterprises, including Cypher Genomics, Websense and McAfee, an Intel company.

"Steve is a proven technology leader who has demonstrated success in transforming cutting edge technology into highly successful commercial products," said Ken Denman, President and CEO, Emotient. "We will rely on his expertise as we continue to drive our innovative, emotion-aware software into the healthcare and retail markets, through a cloud-based platform."

"Emotient is at the forefront of a massive trend in emotion-aware computing," said Ritter.  "Emotient's founding team is spearheading the development of proprietary technology that sets the industry standard for accuracy and real-time delivery of facial expression data and analysis. I look forward to leading the commercial delivery of new emotion analytics products for retail and healthcare based on our state-of-the-art technology."

Most recently, Stephen served as CTO at Cypher Genomics, a leading genome informatics company. Previously, he was Vice President, Engineering for Websense, where he led a global team in the development of the market leading web security product, TRITON Web Security Gateway. Prior to WebSense he served as senior director of engineering at McAfee, now an Intel company, where he developed one of the most advanced and scalable security management software systems in the industry.

Ritter began his career as an accomplished software developer/architect and currently holds six patents in the area of information security. He holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego.

About Emotient – Emotion Recognition Technology (www.emotient.com)
Emotient, Inc., is the leading authority in facial expression analysis. Emotient's software translates facial expressions into actionable information, thereby enabling companies to develop emotion-aware technologies and to create new levels of customer engagement, research, and analysis. Emotient's facial expression technology is currently available to Global 2000 companies within the retail, healthcare and consumer packaged goods industries.

Emotient was founded by a team of six Ph.D.s from the University of California, San Diego, who are the foremost experts in applying machine learning, computer vision and cognitive neuroscience to facial behavioral analysis.

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Neurotechnology Announces Major Updates to Entire Biometric Product Line

VILNIUS, Lithuania, March 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced new releases across their entire line of biometric Software Development Kits (SDK). The latest product versions include significant algorithm improvements for functionality enhancement and higher recognition accuracy. The new, higher-level API is designed to make it easier and faster to integrate any combination of fingerprint, face, iris and voice biometrics into identification projects – from basic applications like secure entry to national-scale projects such as voter registration that require high-speed, high-volume identification capabilities. The new API also makes it simple to switch between the local computer and the required server-side solution and enables the application to be scaled up as needed.

Updated products from Neurotechnology include:

MegaMatcher 5.0 multi-biometric SDK for large-scale applications, MegaMatcher Accelerator 7.0 multi-biometric software and hardware server side matching solution, MegaMatcher on Card 3.3 for multi-biometric matching on a smart card, VeriFinger 7.0 for fingerprint identification, VeriLook 5.5 for facial identification, VeriEye 2.8 for iris identification, and VeriSpeak 2.1 for voice identification. "Our focus has always been on the creation of more powerful biometric algorithms, and we have continued that tradition with major enhancements across these new product versions," said Irmantas Naujikas, Director, Business Development, for Neurotechnology. "Also, project implementation periods are often critically short, so we restructured the API to make it more intuitive, enabling developers to integrate multiple biometric technologies into their projects in a much shorter period of time. We included more simplified samples and tutorials to make the integration process easier," Naujikas added.

Other significant product updates include:

Fingerprint Biometrics (VeriFinger 7.0, MegaMatcher 5.0 SDK, MegaMatcher Accelerator 7.0):  Major updates to the fingerprint segmentation, extraction and matching algorithm provide greater precision. The new recognition algorithm provides a level of accuracy that is up to two times higher than the previous version.   Face Biometrics (VeriLook 5.5, MegaMatcher 5.0 SDK, MegaMatcher Accelerator 7.0): The new facial recognition algorithm offers faster face detection, improved face feature determination and emotion detection. Other biometric modalities: Iris Biometrics (VeriEye 2.8, MegaMatcher 5.0 SDK, MegaMatcher Accelerator 7.0), Voice Biometrics (VeriSpeak 2.1) and Matching On Card (MegaMatcher on Card) all include algorithm updates for functionality improvement or higher recognition accuracy. MegaMatcher 5.0, which is available in both Standard and Extended versions, enables the use of any combination of fingerprint, face, iris, palmprint or voice biometric modalities while providing extremely fast and accurate identification. MegaMatcher 5.0 can match up to 200,000 fingerprint, face or iris records or 8,000 voice print records per second on a single matching server or cluster node. The Cluster Server component, which accommodates multiple Cluster Nodes for extended capacity and speed, is available in MegaMatcher Extended SDK.  The MegaMatcher SDK also includes support for embedded platforms, which enables users to develop PC, embedded or mixed biometric systems that support Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Android platforms.  

Even faster matching speeds can be achieved with the new MegaMatcher Accelerator 7.0 hardware and software solution which matches up to 100 million fingerprints, 100 million faces or 200 million irises per second on single hardware server. MegaMatcher Accelerator 7.0 provides a significantly higher degree of recognition accuracy than any previous version. The matching solution supports fingerprint, face and iris biometric modalities. It is available in both Standard and Extended versions with computer cluster components to enable the building of clusters of MegaMatcher Accelerator units for extremely high speed, high volume identification applications.

Biometrics – and particularly multi-modal biometrics – are increasingly becoming critical components in the issuance of passports, national IDs, voting systems and border control projects around the globe. For these projects, having fast and accurate matching is essential to ensure unique identification and provide a process that works quickly and smoothly for the user. As the need for these biometric projects accelerates worldwide, Neurotechnology's SDKs provide the high degree of speed and accuracy required for national-scale projects while helping to ensure that the development and integration of multiple biometric modalities is as fast and easy as possible.

The entire updated Neurotechnology biometric product line is available through Neurotechnology or from distributors worldwide. For more information, go to: www.neurotechnology.com.

About Neurotechnology
Neurotechnology is a provider of high-precision biometric fingerprint, face, iris, palmprint and voice identification algorithms, object recognition technology and software development products. More than 2500 system integrators, security companies and hardware providers integrate Neurotechnology's algorithms into their products, with millions of customer installations worldwide.

Neurotechnology's identification algorithms have consistently earned the highest honors in some of the industry's most rigorous competitions, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Fingerprint Vendor Technology Evaluation (FpVTE), the Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX), the Iris Exchange (IREX) and the Fingerprint Verification Competitions (FVC).

Drawing from years of academic research in the fields of neuroinformatics, image processing and pattern recognition, Neurotechnology was founded in 1990 in Vilnius, Lithuania and released its first fingerprint identification system in 1991. Since that time the company has released more than 100 products and version upgrades for identification and verification of objects and personal identity.

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