Iris Recognition: Biometric Authentication - NEC Corporation

Highly accurate and fast, iris recognition boasts of having top-class precision among different types of biometric authentication technologies. Breadcrumbnavigation Home Products&Solutions BiometricAuthentication IrisRecognition IrisRecognition*Forpublicsafetymarket Japanese LocalNavigation MenuBiometricAuthentication FaceRecognition IrisRecognition FingerprintIdentification September22,2021 NECirisrecognitiontechnologyranksfirstinNISTaccuracytesting Theirisisthecolored,donut-shapedportionoftheeyebehindthecorneaandsurroundsthepupil.Aperson’sirispatternisuniqueandremainsunchangedthroughoutlife.Also,coveredbythecornea,theirisiswellprotectedfromdamage,makingitasuitablebodypartforbiometricauthentication. Featuresofirisrecognition Highlyaccurateandfast,irisrecognitionboastsofhavingtop-classprecisionamongdifferenttypesofbiometricauthenticationtechnologies. Remainsunchangedthroughoutlife.(Thisdoesnotconstituteaguarantee.) Sincetheirisisdifferentbetweentheleftandrighteye,recognitioncanbeperformedseparatelybyeacheye. Possibletodistinguishtwins. Aslongastheeyesareexposed,irisrecognitioncanbeusedevenwhenthesubjectiswearingahat,mask,eyeglassesorgloves. Becauseofusinganinfraredcamera,recognitionisavailableevenatnightorinthedark. Withouttheneedtotouchthedevice,contactlessauthenticationispossible,makingithygienictouse. Mechanismofirisrecognition First,thelocationofthepupilisdetected,followedbydetectionoftheirisandtheeyelids. Unnecessaryparts(noise),suchaseyelidsandeyelashes,areexcludedtoclipoutonlytheirispart,whichisthendividedintoblocksandconvertedintofeaturevaluestoquantifytheimage. Matchingisthenperformedwithfeaturedatapreviouslyextractedinthesamemethods. EnhancingsecuritythroughcontinuedR&Danduseofmultimodaltechnologies NECR&D NEChaspatentedtheentireprocessfromthedetectionoftheirisfromphotographedimages,extractionofthefeaturevalues,matchingoffeatures,tonoiseremoval. NECiscontinuallycarryingoutR&Donirisrecognitionbyleveragingitsknowhowinfingerprintidentification,facerecognition,andotherbiometricauthenticationtechnologiesthathavebeenrecognizedastheworld’smostaccurate. NECoffersthemostsuitablesolutionfine-tunedtothecustomer’senvironment. MultimodalBiometrics NECofferssolutionsthatcombinefingerprintidentification,facerecognition,andotherproprietarybiometricauthenticationtechnologies. Globalexpansionofirisrecognitionsolution NECaimstorealizeasafe,secure,efficient,andequalsocietybyexpandingirisrecognitionsolutionsforcriminalinvestigation,immigrationcontrol,andnationalidentificationsystemsindifferentregionsaroundtheworld. ImmigrationControl Inresponsetotheincreasingthreatsofterrorismaroundtheworld,NECcontributestoasafeandsecuresocietybyenhancingstringencyofimmigrationcontrol.Ouririsrecognitionsolutionoffersimprovedsecurityandsmoothpersonalidentificationamidsttheincreasingmovementofpeoplebetweencountries. Theirisisphotographed,andtheimageismatchedwiththegovernment’simmigrationcontroldatabaseduringexitorentryproceduresatthepassportcontrolbooth,enablingrapidandstringentpersonalauthentication. Oursolutionprovidesimprovedsecuritythroughstringentrecognition,aswellasimprovedconveniencethroughsmoothauthenticationprocedures. NationalID NECpromotesequalaccesstoadministrativeservicesbyprovidinglegalidentificationforallcitizens.ByenhancingsecurityofnationalIDsystems,oursolutioncontributestorealizingmoreadvancednationalidentificationservices. IrisrecognitionisusedasoneofthemethodsforacquiringbiometricdataneededforissuinguniqueIDs. AccurateandfastauthenticationispossibleevenwithoutanIDcard. Combinedusewithmutuallycomplementarybiometricdata,suchasfingerprintandface,enablesrigidpersonalauthenticationandarobustapproachagainstimpersonation. InadditiontoNationalID,thesolutionissuitableforpassports,driver’slicenses,andvoterIDsystems. CrimeInvestigation Amultimodalbiometricsdatabaseformanagingmultiplebiometricauthenticationdataiscreatedbytakingimagesoftheface,fingerprint,andpalmprint,aswellastheiris. Combiningwithfingerprintandotherbiometricauthenticationsystemsenablesmoreaccurateidentificationofanindividual. Combineduseofbiometricdataallowsrecognitionevenwhenthefingerprint,forexample,couldnotbeusedforidentificationduetoinjury. BiometricAuthentication FaceRecognition IrisRecognition FingerprintIdentification