A New Biometric Technology???
Lately, in the Press Releases and in the news, it seems like that this new thing called “Gesture Recognition” is starting to make waves. Where it has really hit the most is in market research, especially used by media advertising campaigns to see how potential customers will react to certain advertisements, either on the traditional TV airwaves or online. Well, it appears now that Gesture Recognition could be gaining an extra foot hold in the market place. How so??? Through the use of intellectual property, namely through the use of patents. A Biometrics Vendor known as “Biometric Signature ID, Inc.” has just announced it has received a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The details: “Biometric Signature ID, Inc. (BSI) announced today that they received their second patent for their dynamic gesture biometric technology used for identity proofing from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patented technology captures the movements made with various input devices such as your mouse, touch screen, finger or other body movements to enroll and create a biometric multi-factor password that is used to identify the “Who” is trying to gain access to devices or systems. BSI is the only software company with patented dynamic, biometric technology that exceeds government recommendations in the $12.6B Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication market.” (SOURCE: http://www.findbiometrics.com/industry-news/i/9108/).
My Take
I have always wondered what Gesture Recognition is all about. When I first heard of it, I thought it was something like hand movement, facial movement, etc. In other words, looking at the physical movements of the body as a whole, or in much larger segments. But today, as I wrote this Posting, it finally dawned on me what it is all about. At least in the context of this Posting, all a user has to do is use a mouse, and their particular movements on the mouse is then captured, and the unique features extracted. Really in a way, this is similar to Keystroke Recognition, or more particularly, Signature Recognition.
How this is works is that a user points their mouse into a selected image, and clicking various types and kinds of objects within that particular field. It is these particular patterns of movements from the mouse which are captured. Although it all sounds very simple, the applications for this are very powerful. Given the advent of everything being done online, this Biometrics solution holds great promise for document security and authentication, especially when it comes to using digital signatures. As a result, the various market segments which can be served include:
*Healthcare;
*Finance/Banking;
*Online education;
*Cloud computing and Virtualization;
*Uses in the Federal Government where paperwork abounds.
Really, if you think about it, anything which is delivered as a web service or Software as a Service can use this Biometrics SolutionIt is also highly anticipated that this Biometric solution will be used heavily as a Multimodal Biometric Solution. If this is the case, it will for sure give a run to the other Multimodal Biometric Solutions in place, all of which are based upon Physical Biometrics.
This would truly be the first Multimodal Biometric solution which relies primarily upon Behavioral Biometrics. It is not just movements from the mouse which can be captured, but also other bodily movements which can fit in that sphere of the screen on your computer. But in the end, to me, this type of Behavioral Biometric is just a subset of Signature Recognition and Keystroke Recognition, where pressure, timing, speed, etc. are also measured. But, hey it sure would be great to add another Biometric to the world: Something which is called Gesture Recognition.
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