Image-assisted Biometric Identification

Abstract

Biometrics is a rapidly developing technology that has seen widespread use in forensics applications such as criminal identification, secure access, and prison security. A biometric system is a pattern recognition system that recognizes a person by determining the authenticity of a physiological and/or behavioural feature that that person possesses. One of the most widely accepted biometrics utilized by humans in their visual interactions is image- assisted based (facial) biometric. Image-assisted biometric identification is the use of face recognition technology in capturing image of a unique feature of an individual such as an eye or face, and comparing it with a template captured earlier and stored a database. Face recognition is one of the more recent biometrics technologies. The system examines face features and tries to match them to a database of digitized images. This technology is quite new, having only been available commercially since the 1990s. Face recognition has gotten a lot of press after the 9/11 attacks because of its capacity to identify known terrorists and criminals. [1]. Although the technology is mostly utilized for security and law enforcement, there is growing interest in other applications. Keyword: Image-assisted based biometric identification, Face recognition technology, Image