While scanning a press release about Innovate!2010, I read about an innovative biometrics company based in Israel. ID-U claims to have developed the first stimuli-driven biometric system, based on the uniqueness of a person's eye-movement patterns.
According to ID-U’s Website, the system works as follows: “the person to be identified (user) watches a moving target (visual stimulus) on a monitor, while a small, low-resolution camera acquires the user's eye-movement response; a processing unit, either inside the local device or remotely located at another physical site, uses both the stimuli and response to identify the user.” The “sample” pattern is compared to a “base” pattern previously captured. I’m not 100% certain if the person can enroll via their own camera (e.g., computer, cell phone, etc.).
ID-U lists several advantages of using eye-movement patterns, including: the product is software driven, it’s virtually impossible to reproduce a user’s response to stimuli and the product’s inherent liveness detection. Of particular interest to the voice biometrics industry is the Company’s statement that their biometrics technology can be used to secure mobile transactions by simply using a cell phone’s display and camera.
I plan to learn more about this technology (e.g., enrollment process, failure rates, etc.) and report back.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment