Biometric
Technology
In
todays world biometric technology
has advanced to the state where
identification and authentication
of people is available via a
number of different routes.
The EyeNetWatch team have put
together this overview of the
technologies available and an
insight into the state of development
of the technology. We have also compiled a Biometrics
Glossary to help in understanding the jargon used in
the biometrics industry
| Fingerprint
recognition is in effect
one of the oldest biometric
technologies and its application
in criminal identification,
using the human eye, has
been in use for well over
100 years. Nowadays computer
software and hardware can
perform the identification
significantly more accurately
and rapidly. |
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Fingerprint
technology is one of the most developed of all biometric
technologies and its price is low enough to see it
beginning to make inroads into the mass market.
Fingerprint
Recognition - more detail >>
Signature
Recognition
Signature
recognition is a biometric technology that has been worked on for
some years and the dynamic recognition of relative pen
speeds and pressures has significantly improved the
accuracy. This technology is also now at a price that is
well within the budget of many organisations.
Electronic Signature Recognition - Overview >>
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Iris
Recognition
| Iris
recognition is one of the
most accurate of all biometric
technologies with very little
overlap between acceptance
and rejection curves. The
high price of this technology
still limits its application
to very high security requirements. |
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Facial
Recognition
Facial
recognition is one of the newer biometric technologies,
with systems only recently showing the accuracy necessary
for commercial application. Two dimensional face
recognition suffers from problems where non frontal images
are often not identified or misidentified by the software.
Newer 3d facial recognition is showing significant
improvements over its predecessor and products should be
in the marketplace within the next year.
