Multimodal e-Passports
Today’s Posting continues with the theme of the e-Passport once again. I realize that in recent months, my writings about the e-Passport have been fairly random, with not a lot of consistency, as I did at the beginning of the year.
I guess this trend reflects, to a certain degree, the pace at which governments worldwide are implementing and deploying their various e-Passport Infrastructures and schemes. The next country to be added to the list is Lithuania.
The Government of Lithuania has decided upon a Biometrics/Security Vendor known as “Speed Identity” to provide the Biometrics component to their e-Passport Infrastructure. Here are some of the details: “After an extensive evaluation of the market’s technical solutions, the Lithuanian authority chose the tried and tested biometric capture solutions from Speed Identity. The solution has been used by Swedish Police Board and Swedish Migration Board for several years, both for the purpose of capturing biometric data such as facial pictures, finger prints and digital signatures. The data is used for the production of passports and migration documents.” (SOURCE: http://www.biometricnewsportal.com/biometrics_news3.asp?articleid=263870&arttitle=Speed%20Identity%20supplies%20biometric%20capture%20equipment%20for%20Lithuanian%20e-passports).
Final Thoughts On Today’s Posting
The basic thrust of the e-Passport is to be able to store tons of Security Data and Information about an individual, and this includes employing the use of various types of Biometrics. In most of the Postings I have written, the Biometrics to be used were primarily Fingerprint Recognition and/or Iris Recognition.
I find it to be rather unique that the Lithuanian e-Passport scheme will also include Facial Recognition. While this is a viable Biometric one can use, I have not come across it very often for its use in an e-Passport Infrastructure.
What is even more interesting, as noted in the above quote, is the Vendor’s ability to capture all sorts of Biometric Templates, both from a physical (Facial and Fingerprint Recognition) and behavioral (Signature Recognition) standpoints.
Most, if not all, Biometric Multimodal Solutions either use multiple layers of one or the other, not both.
Well, I am definitely scratching my head about this one, physical and behavioral characteristics in one type of Security environment . . . .
Source for this Posting: http://www.biometricnewsportal.com/biometrics_news3.asp?articleid=263870&arttitle=Speed%20Identity%20supplies%20biometric%20capture%20equipment%20for%20Lithuanian%20e-passports
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