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Interview With Nicholas Vandenberghe
Aired February 16, 2003 - 09:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We might as well change the name of Scottsdale, Arizona, to geek heaven, right about now. That's where we find Daniel Sieberg, all the new gadgets, all the great ideas being rolled out there. Hello, Daniel.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Miles, that's right. In fact, this is a show that's mainly for insiders. It's kind of a futuristic show that's been around for about 13 years.
It's kind of touted as the anti-trade show. A little bit smaller scale. They're expecting about 500 media and analyst and venture capitalists, even, looking at these sort of futuristic products that haven't even hit the marketplace yet. And if you're not familiar, you don't recognize the name Demo, you might recognize some of the products that actually got their start here. Including that little thing called the Palm Pilot, came out a few years ago, it actually debuted here at Demo.
Speaking of recognition, I am joined right now before the show opens, by Nicholas Vandenberghe. He is the CEO of a company called Delean Vision. If people have heard about biometrics before, that's using some port of the body as a password, like your fingerprint or using retina scan. But this is a little different because this uses a skin print on your face. Tell me how that works.
NICHOLAS VANDENBERGHE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, DELEAN VISION: That's right. What we do, we find the details of the skin that uniquely identify a person. And it turns out that the skin is just like fingerprint, unique identifier.
SIEBERG: So it's looking for tiny markings on your skin?
We've got a camera set up here, a digital camera, and your company makes the software. Earlier today, I loaded in a picture of myself, a very unflattering picture, I might add, into the system. Using this digital camera. Now we're going to try to match me to that picture.
VANDENBERGHE: That's right.
SIEBERG: So I'm going to line up the camera on my nose, here, just to make sure it's getting the right image. And that little sound means that it's matched the image.
VANDENBERGHE: That we recognize you.
SIEBERG: What is it looking for? If you could, bring up the two pictures, the one earlier.
VANDENBERGHE: We're going to compare two images.
SIEBERG: There's the unflattering with the bags under the eyes. Early in the morning.
VANDENBERGHE: The other one is much more flattering.
We first locate the eyes, to make sure that we've found the person is there. And then we calculate, as you can see, we see where the person is. And then we will calculate what we call a visual skin print, which is just like a finger print, except it's the impact of the light on your skin.
SIEBERG: Now, even if you're wearing makeup, or have a sun tan of some kind, it can still recognize?
VANDENBERGHE: That's right. It will recognize you even with a suntan or even with makeup.
SIEBERG: Now, people have said biometrics and identifiers just aren't where they should be yet, they aren't quite all that accurate. What do you say to that?
VANDENBERGHE: I think it's a fair comment. I think the industry is improving a lot, and we think that we have a breakthrough in this industry, in that the level of the reliability we have reached with this technology, in order of magnitude, better than anything else out there. It's a matter of time until we reach a level of reliability that will make the technology mainstream.
SIEBERG: OK. Nicholas Vandenberghe from Delean Vision, thank you so much for joining us here.
Before the show opens, Miles, something we've got our eye on here. But we'll be looking at more stuff throughout the day, and into the week. Miles, back to you.
O'BRIEN: Thanks for being so brave as to share those pictures with us, Daniel.
SIEBERG: Early in the morning.
O'BRIEN: The nose knows, clearly.
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Aired February 16, 2003 - 09:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: We might as well change the name of Scottsdale, Arizona, to geek heaven, right about now. That's where we find Daniel Sieberg, all the new gadgets, all the great ideas being rolled out there. Hello, Daniel.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Miles, that's right. In fact, this is a show that's mainly for insiders. It's kind of a futuristic show that's been around for about 13 years.
It's kind of touted as the anti-trade show. A little bit smaller scale. They're expecting about 500 media and analyst and venture capitalists, even, looking at these sort of futuristic products that haven't even hit the marketplace yet. And if you're not familiar, you don't recognize the name Demo, you might recognize some of the products that actually got their start here. Including that little thing called the Palm Pilot, came out a few years ago, it actually debuted here at Demo.
Speaking of recognition, I am joined right now before the show opens, by Nicholas Vandenberghe. He is the CEO of a company called Delean Vision. If people have heard about biometrics before, that's using some port of the body as a password, like your fingerprint or using retina scan. But this is a little different because this uses a skin print on your face. Tell me how that works.
NICHOLAS VANDENBERGHE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, DELEAN VISION: That's right. What we do, we find the details of the skin that uniquely identify a person. And it turns out that the skin is just like fingerprint, unique identifier.
SIEBERG: So it's looking for tiny markings on your skin?
We've got a camera set up here, a digital camera, and your company makes the software. Earlier today, I loaded in a picture of myself, a very unflattering picture, I might add, into the system. Using this digital camera. Now we're going to try to match me to that picture.
VANDENBERGHE: That's right.
SIEBERG: So I'm going to line up the camera on my nose, here, just to make sure it's getting the right image. And that little sound means that it's matched the image.
VANDENBERGHE: That we recognize you.
SIEBERG: What is it looking for? If you could, bring up the two pictures, the one earlier.
VANDENBERGHE: We're going to compare two images.
SIEBERG: There's the unflattering with the bags under the eyes. Early in the morning.
VANDENBERGHE: The other one is much more flattering.
We first locate the eyes, to make sure that we've found the person is there. And then we calculate, as you can see, we see where the person is. And then we will calculate what we call a visual skin print, which is just like a finger print, except it's the impact of the light on your skin.
SIEBERG: Now, even if you're wearing makeup, or have a sun tan of some kind, it can still recognize?
VANDENBERGHE: That's right. It will recognize you even with a suntan or even with makeup.
SIEBERG: Now, people have said biometrics and identifiers just aren't where they should be yet, they aren't quite all that accurate. What do you say to that?
VANDENBERGHE: I think it's a fair comment. I think the industry is improving a lot, and we think that we have a breakthrough in this industry, in that the level of the reliability we have reached with this technology, in order of magnitude, better than anything else out there. It's a matter of time until we reach a level of reliability that will make the technology mainstream.
SIEBERG: OK. Nicholas Vandenberghe from Delean Vision, thank you so much for joining us here.
Before the show opens, Miles, something we've got our eye on here. But we'll be looking at more stuff throughout the day, and into the week. Miles, back to you.
O'BRIEN: Thanks for being so brave as to share those pictures with us, Daniel.
SIEBERG: Early in the morning.
O'BRIEN: The nose knows, clearly.
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