Biometric Border Control with Facial Recognition Supplied by ZN Tested in Germany.Business Editors BOCHUM, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2002 The Bavarian police in Germany just revealed a pilot project for biometric bi·o·met·rics n. (used with a sing. verb) The statistical study of biological phenomena. bi border control at the land border crossing point in the town of Waidhaus, Germany. The border control system is based on automatic facial recognition Noun 1. facial recognition - biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces; "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists" automatic face recognition, face recognition supplied by ZN Vision Technologies AG. The system concept consisting of a passport reader with integrated automatic facial recognition developed by ZN is the first implementation of an integrated approach towards travel document and identity checks at the border. The system solution has been employed for about three months for passport checks at the Waidhaus border crossing point between Germany and the Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. . It helps border officials to verify the authenticity The correct attribution of origin such as the authorship of an e-mail message or the correct description of information such as a data field that is properly named. Authenticity is one of the six fundamental components of information security (see Parkerian Hexad). of travel documents while at the same time discovering identity fraud by means of interchanged or stolen passports. In order to verify a person's identity, the system makes use of the unambiguous biometric feature of the face which is present in every passport in form of the passport photograph. The passport photograph is scanned and compared to a simultaneously taken live image of the passport holder. This is sufficient to establish whether photograph and live image show the same person. In addition, the authenticity of the actual document is verified by reading the security features. The current test is not only of exemplary value with regard to Germany's national security policy, but is also of utmost international importance. By means of the system solution tested in Waidhaus, it is possible to check any identity documents corresponding to the regulations of the ICAO ICAO abbr. International Civil Aeronautics Organization Noun 1. ICAO - the United Nations agency concerned with civil aviation International Civil Aviation Organization , the UN organization responsible for international machine readable Data in a form that can be read by the computer, which includes disks, tapes and punch cards. Printed fonts that can be scanned and recognized by the computer are also machine readable. travel document standards. The ICAO standard prescribes a photograph for all passports of its member states, which means that there is a global basis for passport checks based on automatic facial recognition. Since the existing passport photograph is used for the biometric comparison, no additional storage of any biometric data in the travel document is required. Due to this opportunity for interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. , the ICAO recommended facial recognition as the most suitable method for passport and border control scenarios in its resolution of June 28th, 2002. |
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