Balancing speed and security at checkpoints, like airports, is essential to ensuring safe, reliable travel.
Many of these checkpoints are increasingly using biometric technology to improve speed and reliability, and while recent improvements in biometrics have lowered failure to match rates, many systems fail to quickly acquire biometric information in the first place.
IDEMIA’s contactless OneLook™ device for rapid capture, matching and processing of face and iris biometrics, earned top scores in all three performance categories in the 2018 Biometric Technology Rally, hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), a Four-Time Platinum Award Winner in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program.
(The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) first Biometric Technology Rally, held in March at S&T’s Maryland Test Facility (MdTF), aimed to eliminate these obstacles by testing face and face/iris recognition systems. Courtesy of the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s and YouTube. Posted on Jul 27, 2018.)
Biometric Capture and Identification systems from participating organizations were tested for user satisfaction, effectiveness (capture capability and matching capability) and efficiency (throughput).
OneLook was the only face/iris system that scored among the top three systems tested at the rally.
OneLook offers a new approach to capture and identification through a single, easy-to-use, at-a-distance biometric capture device that provides rapid capture, matching and processing.
Requiring little involvement from users, OneLook can be integrated into an existing customer touchpoint, such as a self-service kiosk, or provided as a turnkey solution for integration into a gate or counter.
Morpho OneLook Key Benefits Include:
Capturing two biometrics with only one look
QUICK AND EASY CAPTURE
- Both iris and face biometrics are captured in less than three seconds on average, as people walk through the capture field.
- Embedded anti-spoofing technology uses auto-focus for iris capture and 3D video tracking for facial recognition.
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
- Separately, iris and facial recognition offer high levels of accuracy.
- Combined in Morpho OneLook by IDEMIA, they provide the highest level possible based on software algorithms proven to be the best in the world in independent tests.
HIGH-QUALITY EQUIPMENT
- The advanced imaging equipment used in Morpho OneLook provides a device that captures high-quality data and, with no moving parts or lighting, a low cost of ownership.
S&T’s first Biometric Technology Rally, held in March 2018, with results published in late July, used a standard security checkpoint process, which require speed and reliability, to test the ability of biometric identity systems to acquire and match images from a diverse volunteer population within a realistic time constraint.
Six of the eleven companies that participated entered unimodal biometric face-only systems.
IDEMIA was among the five companies that competed with a multimodal biometric face/iris system to provide an enhanced level of authentication – more effectively addressing the need for accurate identification in high-security environments.
Among the results:
- User Satisfaction
- OneLook achieved the highest user satisfaction rating among face/iris stations with a 93% score
- One Look ranked in the top three among all eleven companies – demonstrating the simplicity of use for this multimodal system
- Effectiveness
- OneLook was the only face/iris system that met the rally threshold of obtaining a less than 5% “failed to acquire face images” (face FtAR) metric within 20 seconds
- OneLook achieved the highest score among face/iris systems for the true identification rate of iris images (iris mTIR) within both 5 and 20 second testing scenarios
- Efficiency
- Among face/iris stations, OneLook registered the second best score with a transaction processing time under nine seconds.
“The outstanding performance of OneLook at the Biometric Technology Rally continues IDEMIA’s over four decades of leadership in the industry and is a testament to developing the best available solutions for public security, civil identity and border control challenges,” said Donnie Scott, Senior Vice President, Public Security for North America at IDEMIA.
“OneLook now joins our long string of successes in product competitions as the ideal mutimodal biometric solution for high-volume identification use cases in which accuracy, speed and reliability are required. “
(Learn More about IDEMIA capabilities, which provide customized solutions in a world that evolves and advances faster than ever before. Courtesy of the company and YouTube. Posted on Sep 28, 2017.)
Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today.
By standing for Augmented Identity, IDEMIA™ reinvents the way we think, produce, use and protect this asset, whether for individuals or for objects, ensuring privacy and trust as well as guaranteeing secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions for international clients from Financial, Telecom, Identity, Public Security and IoT sectors.
DHS S&T in the 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program
The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program is organized to recognize the most distinguished security vendors, and government/public safety agencies, as the nation continues to respond to escalating threats from home and abroad.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science (DHS) and Technology Directorate (S&T) took home Four 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Platinum Awards for ‘Excellence in Homeland Security’ at ISC East in New York City.
The innovative solutions being implemented to meet those threats has led to tremendous growth in the field of Homeland Security, and to this awards program for recognition of the key contributors to our nation’s security.
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)
- Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environ (EDGE) Virtual Online Training for First Responders Open at No Cost to All U.S. First Responders Agencies, Across Disciplines for Coordinated Response to Critical Incidents
- Excellence in Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)
- Resilient Tunnel Plug (RTP) to Strengthen Mass Transportation Critical Infrastructure from Disruptive Flood Events
- Excellence in Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) First Responders Group (FRG)
- Flood Apex Program, Applying New & Emerging Technologies to Improve Community Resilience from Flood Disasters, Reduce Fatalities and Property Loss
- Excellence in Homeland Security
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects (HSARPA)
- Surface Transportation Explosives Threat Detection (STETD) on Developing the Capacity to Detect Potential Threat Items Throughout Rail and Subway Systems Without Alerting the Subject or Negatively Impacting the Speed of Travel
- Excellence in Homeland Security
Over 100 distinguished guests from National, State and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Executives from companies allied to Government, gathered from across North America and the Middle East to be honored from disciplines across the Security Industry in their respective fields which included representatives from:
- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- The Department of Justice
- The Security Exchange Commission
- State and Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Leaders in Private Security
