Advanced Biometric Solutions

 

Reliable person recognition is an important problem in civil and commercial activities.  The three main types of person authentication available today are:

• Something you know – e.g. password, PIN or code.
• Something you have – e.g. swipe card, smart card, token or key.
• Something you are – a biometric

Of these, biometrics, which refers to automatic recognition of people based on their distinctive anatomical (e.g., face, fingerprint, iris, retina, hand geometry) and behavioural (e.g., signature, gait) characteristics, will become the essential component of effective person identification solutions. This is because biometric identifiers cannot be shared or misplaced and they intrinsically represent the individual's bodily identity. Biometrics are the most secure and convenient method of authentication.

However, biometric technology has not yet delivered its promise of “fool-proof recognition performance”. Unlike passwords or token-based systems, a practical biometric system does not make perfect match decisions.  Noise, geometric distortion, variable skin condition, lighting and pose variation are the most common reasons for false identification.

At Warwick Warp, we have developed a new approach that can "unwarp" the biometric data and remove the geometrical and environmental variation. Using a complex mathematical model, Warwick Warp's technology is especially robust in dealing with "low quality" and "high distorted" biometric data which most of the other systems find difficult to process.

Warwick Warp's technology can be implemented in multiple biometric systems including fingerprint, face and other emerging biometrics.