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New Fingerprint Tech Could Mean Never Losing Your Keys Again 02-10-2007

Enter Warwick Warp, the brainchild of three British computer scientists. The company's received seed capital from Oxford Early Investments, and it's on the prowl for another million dollars of equity financing. The scientist have come up with a system that recognizes the distortions introduced by those disobedient wired News individuals who don't treat the sensor like a lab instrument.

"We're trying to model the variations and therefore minimize them," said Dr. Li Wang, chief technological officer of Warwick Warp. The company's algorithm filters out the environmental distortion and then unwarps the contours of the skin. Drawing on our distorted-letter analogy, it helps reflatten the letter into a shape recognizable by any spambot.
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Prints Charming 29-09-2007

Warwick University researchers have devised a new way to “unwarp” prints, to create clear digital representations that can then be mapped on to an “image space” of all fingerprints held on a database. The scientists say the “unwarping” is so effective that, for the first time, it is possible to compare the positions of individual sweat pores on fingerprints.
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The future of biometrics at The London Science Museum 24-08-2007

Technology like Warwick Warp's could eventually be incorporated into identity cards (the first of which are set to be issued in 2009 under Labour’s controversial plans) and biometric passports. The Government believes that these e-documents will prove invaluable in combating crimes like identity theft, social security fraud and even terrorism.
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Warwick Warp wins RCUK Business Plan Competition & £25,000 26-12-2006

Warwick Warp, a spin-out company from the University of Warwick. Warwick Warp is developing a unique software-based fingerprint identification system which is substantially more reliable and also faster than those info4security currently available. Warwick Warp's technology can be incorporated into identity cards and biometric passports – and so could help combat crimes such as identity theft, social security fraud, people trafficking and terrorism.

Minister for Science and Innovation, Malcolm Wicks, said:"I congratulate Warwick Warp and all those short-listed for the competition because many of them have developed potentially winning ideas for areas which are crucial to our economy, our health and quality of life.
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