Suzanne Smalley reports:
A European Commission-funded biometric “gait recognition” program to study how to more easily identify people crossing the European Union’s external borders by examining their unique walking styles kicked off Thursday.
The initiative, dubbed the PopEye Project, is supported by a €3.2 million ($3.5 million) grant that covers a three-year pilot testing the technology, according to TechTransfer, a program at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and a partner on the effort.
Horizon Europe, a European Union funding mechanism for research and innovation, is bankrolling the pilot, according to TechTransfer and a second partner, the Swiss research institute Idiap.
Read more at The Record.
h/t, Joe Cadillic