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Liopa - the world's only startup focused on automated lipreading via visual speech recognition
Liopa deciphers speech from lip movements alone; automated, AI-based lipreading to assist with speech recognition and voice technologies.
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Liopa develops biometric authorisation technology that requires no additional hardware, which learns a person's lip movements using a smartphone or laptop camera and can confirm their identity by asking them to read unique phrases out loud.
Liopa brings a novel, robust and convenient person authentication solution to the biometric security market. Our product can validate a user's identity by analysing the appearance and movement of their lips as they speak into a camera. These movements are known as their viseme profile and have been shown to be highly speaker-specific. The user is challenged to say a randomly chosen word or phrase each time they are authenticated. This allows our technology to not only accurately verify identity but also ensure that the person is actually present ("liveness") and therefore the biometric data is not being falsified. Liopa enables a number of use cases including - o Prevention of theft and fraud in online and mobile commerce o Online and mobile banking authentication o Secure Access to Web-sites o Physical Access Security, Time and Attendance Management o Securing access to Mobile Devices & Applications o Authentication for Corporate mobile workforce
Liopa has been named the winner of the Software and Digital Media category, sponsored by Intel, at the 25k Awards. The team was one of two spin out ventures competing in this category being incubated by the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) based at Queen's University Belfast's ECIT Institute. The prestigious annual 25k awards, which are sponsored by Bank of Ireland, are made under the NISP CONNECT entrepreneurship programme, based at the Northern Ireland Science Park in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. The awards are designed to showcase the most innovative research and intellectual property from the publicly funded institutions in Northern Ireland. Liopa were recently selected as a Finalist in the prestigious IPASCO ICT Security awards. Liopa's unique Lip-based Biometric Authentication solution impressed the judges in this highly competitive category. IPACSO is supported by the European Commission, and aims to improve the competitiveness of the European Cyber Security & Privacy market. Each year in October, Europe's most innovative and forward-thinking researchers and entrepreneurs gather in Brussels, recognising those who are bolstering Europe's cyber security landscape. With the awards, the IPACSO consortium, supported by the European Commission under FP7, support Privacy and Cyber Security Innovations 'Made in Europe'.
1 Jun 2020 to 31 Mar 2021
The COVID pandemic will result in large numbers of patients who need to be weaned off ventilators over several weeks. In order to do this, patients will need a tracheostomy. From experience with existing patients it is known that these patients will not be sedated, will be in an unfamiliar environment, confused, frightened, weak and unable to vocalise. By...
1 May 2019 to 30 Nov 2019
"There are a group of people who are unable to vocalise or move their limbs but are able to move their lips. In a hospital setting these include those with neck and spinal cord injuries, degenerative neurological conditions and some head and neck cancers. There are only a few ways of allowing these patients to communicate and those resources are expensive...
1 Apr 2017 to 31 Mar 2019
To develop a Visual Speech Recognition system, capable of recognising a limited vocabulary, which can act as an enhancement to an audio speech recognition application such as in car voice control.
