BIOMETRICAL IDENTITYMULTI-MODAL SOLUTIONS

BIMS BIOMETRIC DATA ACQUISITION

BIMS Biometric Data Acquisition is an application for persons’ biographical and biometrical data collection in real time or from existing file (pictures, ten print cards etc.) and transmission to Central Biometric System, with persons’ verification and identification functionality.

Application provides unified and intuitive user interface, in order to quickly and easily collect biographical and biometrical data to person case, and send it to central system.

Biometric data enrollment, identification and verification does not bring the best impact if the quality of the captured data is not assessed right. Therefore BIMS Biometric Data Acquisition application conducts automatic quality assessment and control in real-time of obtained biometrical elements, as well as performs duplicate and elements consistency check, and obtained biometrical data segmentation.

• TheBIMSapplicationcanbeusedbyanyauthorizedorganization toperformbiometricaldatacollection, as well as to identify or verify person.

• Mostlycurrentapplicationisbeingusedbypolicestationstoregisternewcriminalsandcollecttheir biometrical data.

• Theapplicationisveryusefulfordocumentissuingorganizations,tocollectcivilperson’sdata.

The main application advantage is that it is not dependent from any specific hardware manufacturer for biometrical data collection, or biometrical algorithms providers, which allows to use and integrate application with different devices and algorithms. As well one of the application functions provides the abilitytoautomaticallyaddpersontocentralizedwantedpersonlist,orcheckitinbackgroundmodeagainst this list, when the new biometrical data or person case is being enrolled to the system.

The application encapsulates all of the person’s data and supported biometry data in a NIST 2011 file standardizedbytheANSI/NISTorganization.

Inadditionapplicationhas themanagement functionality for thecentralizedwantedperson list andautomatic alert system. Therefore the provided functionality allows to add new person cases to the wanted person list, as well as to modify and delete current cases from the list. Also, its functionality provides the ability to control the automatic alert system, which sends out the notifications (e-mail, SMS) todifferent lawenforcementorganizationsorperson’saboutthepossiblematches, inordertoallowthem to focus on the identified wanted person.

Benefits of the BIMS Biometric Data Acquisition application:

• Unifiedplatformformultiplebiometricmodalities;

• Notdependentfromanyspecifichardwaremanufacturersorbiometricalalgorithmsproviders;

• Adjustablebiometricqualitythresholdsformanyneeds;

• BiometricdatatransmissionfilesstandardizedbytheANSI/NISTorganizationforasecureddatatransfer;

• Watchlistfeatureforcentralizedwantedpeoplelistmanagementfunctionality;

• Automaticalertingsystembye-mailorSMSwhenawantedpersonisdetected.

BIMS IDENTITY CASE MANAGEMENT APPLICATION

BIMSIdentityCaseManagementapplicationiscentralizedcontrolandmonitoringtoolofallbiometricalidentities collected and stored in Central Biometric System. The main functionality of it allows to resolve different biometrical and biographical conflicts, to search and compare person cases, and also to modify and delete person cases. As well the current application automatically saves and stores history of each person case changes, which enables to see how, when and by whom the person case has been modified.

In addition the BIMS Identity Case Management application provides cooperation and data exchange with experts which allows, for example, to send two person cases for comparison to biometrical data expert, and to receive expert conclusion about the similarity of both cases. Also the BIMS application provides person identification in Central Biometric System and other external systems. For example, the IdentityCaseManagementapplication is integrated toexchangedatawithPRÜMandEURODACsystems, and can be extended for data exchange with other systems as well.

With the BIMS Identity Case Management application the customer acquires the ability to use:

• Personcasebiographicalsearch.

• Personcasebiometricalidentification.

• Personcaseviewing.

• Personcaseediting.

• Biometricdataconflictsituationprocessing.

• Not-processedpersoncaseselection,andhangingforviewingandprocessing.

• Incompletebiographicaldataprocessing.

• Personcasecomparison.

• Personcasedeletionrequestapproval.

• Approvalofpersoncasebiometricelementdeletion.

• Personcasebiographicalinformationchangehistory.

• Personcasechangehistory(attributedatachanges).

• Personbiometricalidentificationrequestprocessingandcooperationwithexternalsystems.

IdentityCaseManagementapplicationismainlyusedbyorganizationswithaCentralBiometricSystemswhich collects and processes biometric data.

It is used to solve identity conflicts and manage biometric and biographical identities. The application can interact with biometric expert software – such as BIMS Finger and Face Expert applications.

BIMS MOBILE ID

BIMS Mobile ID is used as an application on mobile devices (smart phones or special mobile devices) to perform real time and any place person basic identification or verification processes using finger print andfaceimage.Thereforetheapplicationcanbewidelyusedbydifferentlawenforcementorganizations,for example, police officers, in order to establish arrested person’s identity at the crime scene or in the medicine and ambulance work, for example, to identify unconscious person’s identity or to identify unknown corpse during the medical expertise at the crime scene. In addition the application provides the ability to store wanted person list locally on the device with options of synchronisation to central systemwhichallowstoidentify/verifypersoninanofflinemode.

The special mobile devices contain multiple compactly combined equipment for biometric data – scanner for fingerprints, camera for face images and a slot for reading smart cards. The Android interface is known to large part of users, but the mobile internet connection brings the possibility to use the device almost from any place possible. Additional features offer the full benefits of geolocation based provided by built-in GPS, time stamping and other location services.

If needs for mobile identification solution requires more biometric modalities than fingerprints and face recognition, we offer multimodal biometric recognition to the current set. BIMS Mobile ID can be used at the scene of crime or for civil identification on the street or airport. This device includes fingerprints, face image and iris recognition.

For police officers the device can be a great help when establishing arrested person’s identity. BIMS Mobile ID allows enrolling, identifying and verifying a person by single slap fingerprint, rolled fingerprints and dual fingerprints recognition.

This device can always be “on-person”, so border control employees can use the device to prevent criminals leaving the country.

The benefits of mobile identification bring the users efficient person identification means independently from location and time.

BIMS VERIFICATION AGAINST IDENTITY DOCUMENT

BIMS application for Verification against Identity Document provides the real time person identity check. The application based on the biometrical document (passport, e-ID card) scans the person data and compares it against the live biometric data acquired from person (using biometrical data scanner) who is presenting the document. Current application can be widely used by different governmental institutions, bordercontrolandcustoms(forexample,atairportande-gates),bybanksandotherorganizations,inorder to efficiently check if person is legal document holder. As well application can be used in election process to verify voter’s identity and eligibility to vote.

BIMS Verification against Identity Document application is presented in multiple forms based on different customer needs:

• Desktopapplication–forgovernmentoffices.

• Mobileapplication–formobiledevicestocarry“on-person”.

• Stationaryelectronicgatesonpremises–forbuildingsandpublicevents.

For mobile solution of Verification against Identity Document BIMS already offers a product called BIMS Mobile ID. It combines verification by multimodal biometric data – fingerprints and face image, the same modalities incorporated in most passports, international travel documents and ID cards.

BIMS Verification against Identity Document could have a significant impact on the election process if such solution would be used. The voter’s identity is verified according to the biometric information contained in the identity document and his/her eligibility to participate in the elections ischeckedinacentralizedvoters’register.

Electronic gates or eGates aremeant primarily for organizations providing border control but doesnot end with that. Large corporations with high security needs also can use such identity verification solutions for providing access to premises.

Features brought to the customer by acquiring such electronic gates solution:

• Consistsoffacerecognitionsoftwareandpanelhardwareandfirmware.

• Modular,flexibledesign.

• Mobileunitmovesintooptimalverticalpositionbasedonfacelocationinlessthan2seconds.

• Monitorshowsliveimageofthepersonanddisplaysuserinstructions.

• Proprietarysensordetectspresentationattacks(masks,printedimages,videomaterial).

• Incorporates the latest face recognition algorithm developed by one of the world’s leadingbiometric solutions experts – Cognitec.

• User-friendlyinterfaceforeasyintegration.

• Installsontocertifiedglasssurfacesorcanbeorderedwithglasscover.

Main benefit forapplyingsuchsolutionsisanefficientperson’sidentitydocumentcheckagainsthis/herbiometric information.

Additional benefit brings the customer the ability to check if the person verified is registered in the wanted persons list. If so, an alert message is shown and required parties are notified.

BIMS VIDEO ANALYTICS

The BIMS Video Analytics application automatically scans incoming video streams, detects multiple facesand checks for possiblematchesagainst centralizedwantedpersonswatch list. If amatch isfound,lawenforcementorganizationsarenotifiedinrealtime(usingautomaticalertsystem–email,SMS) allowing them to focus on the identified wanted person. Therefore application can be widely used in different public places (border control, airports, train stations, bus stations etc.) where video monitoring is performed in order to check persons’ identities against central watch list.

The application detects people’s faces in live video streams or video footage and stores video sequences of cropped faces (face streams) for each appearance in front of a camera.

The BIMS Video Analytics runs on Cognitec’s FaceVACS-VideoScan software which provides a few very commercially significant features – people analytics, people flow and business intelligence. The customer will be provided with:

• Anonymousdemographicaldataforintelligentsignage,marketingandoperationaldecisions.

• Analysisoftrafficpatternsandtimestochangeinteriordesign,placeadvertisingandplanstaffing.

• Crowddetectionandwaiting/transittimemanagement.

• Alertstosecuritystaffandcustomerexperienceenhancement.

Features brought to the customer by acquiring such video analytics solution:

• Tracksmultiplefacessimultaneously.

• Comparesfacesagainstimagegalleriesinrealtime.

• Displaysreal-timesignalswhenuser-definedeventsoccur.

• Displaysandexportsstatisticsaboutpeopleflow,visitordemographics,andclientbehaviour.

• Sendssignalsandstatisticstomobiledevices.

• Supportsinteractiveenrolmentfromstillimageandlivevideostream.

• Includesintegratorkitforvideosystems,includingC++APIandwebservicesAPI.

• Provideshigh scalability in termsofwatch list size, number of video streamsandnumber ofvisible faces.

BIMS FACE EXPERT WORKSTATION

The BIMS Face Expert application’s aim is to solve complex crimes which requires next-generation tools. Therefore the face expert workstation provides the face image and video material processing, usingdifferentautomatedexpertisetoolsinordertoconductanalysisandimage/videoenhancement.This is to perform better data comparison against central system, as well as to enrol processed and improved data to database. For example, application can generate person face 3D model, based only on one fragment of face.

The BIMS Face Expert Workstation is based on the Cognitec’s FaceVACS DBScan which instantlycompares facial images from various sources to large image databases, supporting the biometric identification, comparison, and verification of persons.

Law enforcement professionals can identify individuals in crime scene photos, videos stills and sketches by matching facial images against the agency’s mug shot repository. ID issuance agencies can compare ID portraits to large image databases to prevent ID fraud or detect clerical errors.

BIMSFaceExpertWorkstation,mainlydevelopedfordesktopapplication,butnonethelessalsocanbeused with mobile devices (running on Android). The BIMS Mobile Face Examiner offers the features to:

• usecamerasinmobiledevicestotakesuspectphotosatthescene;

• searchcentraldatabasesandinstantlyreceivecandidatelists;

• viewpersondemographicsandotherrelatedinformation;

• useintuitiveuserinterface;

• useflexibledisplayoptionsforcandidatelistsanddata.

Features brought to the customer by acquiring such face expert workstation solution:

• Powerfultoolsetforimagequalityenhancementandvisualinspectionofmatches.

• Clusterconfigurationsformulti-millionpersondatabaseprocessing.

• Flexibleandcomfortablematchlisthandlingthatallowssorting,rearranging,browsing,filteringand more.

• Batchandinteractiveenrolmentsandidentifications.

• Flexiblemanagementofadditionalcase-relateddata.

• Integratorkitforeasyintegrationintoexistingsystems.

• Pre-binningbybinsets.

• One-to-fewrequests.

• Highavailabilityoption.

BIMS FINGER EXPERT WORKSTATION

TheBIMSFingerExpertWorkstationapplication’saimistosolvecomplexcrimes,whichrequiresnext-generation tools. Therefore the finger expert workstations provides the latent print material processing, using different automated expertise tools, in order to conduct analysis and image enhancement. This is to perform better data comparison against central system, as well as to enrol processed and improved data to database.

BIMSFingerExpertWorkstationusesthefunctionalityoffingerprint identification(dactyloscopy)andthe corresponding biometric application (AFIS) is sanctioned by legal systems throughout the world. Therefore, the Criminal AFIS can be applied to convict criminals solely based on identified fingerprints found at a crime scene.

Features brought to the customer by acquiring such finger expert workstation solution:

• StateoftheartCardScanApplicationforconversionoffingerprintslips/cardsaswellaspalmprints from paper.

• LiveScanApplicationforcaptureoffinger-andpalmprints,photoandsignature.

• AutomaticImageProcessingforqualitycontrolofthecapturedprints.

• ForensicWorkstationforeditingandvisualenhancementoflatentfingerandpalmprints.

• Verification Application for managing biometric and demographic data with easy to handlecandidate list.

• CrimeHistory/CaseManagement.

• ReportingandStatistics.

• PrintApplication(e.g.CertificateofGoodConduct).

TheBIMSFingerExpertWorkstationcanbeusedbydifferent lawenforcement institutions–centralpolice and regional police forces, prisons, and special security forces.

• Policedatabasewithtenprints(TP)andlatentprints(LP).

• IncludesTP-TP,TP-LP,LP-TP,LP-LPsearching.

• World’sfastestAFIScodingandmatching.

• High-performancepre-filtration,adjustableusingsamplespecimen.

• Bestperformanceinrecognitionrates.

• Nospecialhardwarenecessary,ascommerciallyavailablestandardhardwareisused.

• RunsonallhardwareplatformsandcommonoperatingsystemssuchasWindowsand/orUnix.

• Useofstandarddatabases,suchasOracle,SQLServer,Informix,etc.

• Thecustomerhasfullauthorityoverhisowndatabase–noaccessordatatransfertotheAFISisneeded during remote maintenance.

• Codingandmatchingof:

o epidermal ridges

o forks

o pattern centers

o deltas

• Integrationofdigitalphotosandsignatures.

BIMS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

BIMS System Administration is a tool for an efficient control and monitoring of the central system settings and configuration. Current application has a simple and user-friendly web interface, which enables system administrators to easily conduct and provide a system maintenance and support. The main application functionality allows to view and configure audit data, configuration parameters, system’s scheduled jobs and background tasks. Aswell the application allows to view andmanagewanted person watch lists, to modify automatic alert system, and to analyse current match and alert activities. In addition the BIMS administration application provides a convenient view and analysis of system errors and failures, as well as the functionality of cleaning for system data array with poor quality information.

BIMSSystemAdministrationapplicationismainlyforuseinorganizations,whichareresponsibleforthecentral system maintenance and administration.

• Main system administrator – changes system parameters and system’s scheduled task configuration, monitors system (audit events, error log).

• System administrator – monitors system (audit events, error log).

• Poor quality biometrical data manager – manages poor quality biometrical data (cleans old and not needed poor quality biometrics).

BIMS CORE BUSINESS SYSTEMS

The core business system of BIMS offers multimodal biometric services, starting from biometric search engine to administration and reporting systems.

Data exchange is ensured with several external systems:

• EURODAC

• PRÜM

• ECRIS

• Stateinternalsystems(astheMinistryofInterioroftheRepublicofLatvia)

Dataexchange isstandardizedas thesystemsuseNISTfiles fordata transfersbetweeneachother.NIST file contains all necessary person case data, including the biometric information of any enrolled modality – all information contained in a secure form.

Reporting and monitoring services are integrated with Zabbix Solution which brings the customer such benefits:

• Consolidatedmonitoringsolutionforallalarmingandperformancerelatedinformation.

• Excellentflexibilityandscalabilityandgreatstability.

• Alertingon“situationsunique”toa“specificissue”.

• Veryeasyinimplementation,useandcustomization.

• Easytoconfigureandupdateduetomanyexistingresourcesexplaininghoworwheretotuneorfix problems.

• Easilymonitorsanytypeofvendorordevice.

• Customgraphs,themapsfeature,andlatestdata.

• Includedfunctionalityissufficienttomonitoralmostanyserverandnetworkdevice.

• Abilitytofixproblemsbeforethecustomerevenbecomesawareoftheirexistence.

• Extensiveinformationfordecisionmakinginsolvingproblemsorbottlenecksinthenetworks.

• Possibilitytoautomatetheprocesses.

• Lowadministrativecosts.

• Increasecompany’sROI.

International standards supported:

• BioAPI 2.0 (ISO/IEC 19784-1:2006) (Framework andBiometric ServiceProvider for fingerprintidentification engine)

• ISO/IEC19794-2:2005(FingerprintMinutiaeData)

• ISO/IEC19794-4:2005(FingerImageData)

• ANSI/INCITS378-2004(FingerMinutiaeFormatforDataInterchange)

• ANSI/INCITS381-2004(FingerImage-BasedDataInterchangeFormat)

• ANSI/NIST-CSL1-1993(DataFormatfortheInterchangeofFingerprint,Facial,&SMTInformation)

• ANSI/NIST-ITL1a-1997(DataFormatfortheInterchangeofFingerprint,Facial,&SMTInformation)

• ANSI/NIST-ITL1-2000(DataFormatfortheInterchangeofFingerprint,Facial,&SMTInformation)

• ANSI/NIST-ITL1-2007(DataFormatfortheInterchangeofFingerprint,Facial,&OtherBiometricInformation)

• ANSI/NIST-ITL1a-2009(DataFormatfortheInterchangeofFingerprint,Facial,&OtherBiometricInformation)

• ANSI/NIST-ITL1-2011(DataFormatfortheInterchangeofFingerprint,Facial,&OtherBiometricInformation)

• BioAPI 2.0 (ISO/IEC 19784-1:2006) (Framework and Biometric Service Provider for FaceIdentification Engine)

• ISO/IEC19794-5:2005(FaceImageData)

• ANSI/INCITS385-2004(FaceRecognitionFormatforDataInterchange)

• BioAPI2.0(ISO/IEC19784-1:2006)(FrameworkandBiometricServiceProviderforirisidentificationengine)

• ISO/IEC19794-6:2005(IrisImageData)

• ANSI/INCITS379-2004(IrisImageInterchangeFormat)

• EBTS(ElectronicBiometricTransmissionSpecification)

BIMS BIOMETRIC DATA MIGRATION

DPA has performed multiple biometric data migrations for government institutions from their registers  – civil registry, registry of Road Traffic Safety Directorate, police biometric registers (face records, criminal AFIS), etc.

The automated fingerprint information system (AFIS) has been migrated while other processes evaluated the person files, compared them and determined the duplicates – a process that cleaned the information system from unnecessary data.

The experience gained from such projects gave the knowledge and understanding of biometricdatabases and the correlation between identities and the biometric data quality describing the biometric themselves.

BIMS Migration tools offer migrating paper based fingerprints (dactylocards) to digital form. By scanning the dactylocards with a fast scanning station can provide large printed sheet information to automated fingerprint information systems. Such printed sheet fast scanning station:

• Canscanupto500fingerprintsperhour.

• Checksprintdataqualityinrealtime.

• Returnshighresolutionimages:500or1000dpi.

BIMS AUTOMATED DOCUMENT ISSUANCE

The BIMS Automated Document Issuance is a solution for civil biometric data enrollment for the purpose of renewing an electronic ID (eID), biometric passport, driver’s licence or any other type of document containing biometric data. Solution uses communication with the Central Biometric System.

Atraditionalcardissuancemodeliswhenacitizenenrollshis/herdataintoasystem,thenanofficialvalidates the person and submits a request for a document production. After the document is produced, itissenthandedtothecitizenattheofficeorsentbymail.Afterthatthecitizenactivatesthedocument,if necessary. This model poses risk of lost or stolen document in the delivery phase.

Thetraditionalmodelisoptimizedbyaddingself-servicekiosksanddocumentdispensers.TheBIMSAutomated Document Issuance solution offers a multimodal biometric enrollment and verification in oneapplication.Thecitizencanspecifyaphonenumberand/ore-mailaddresswhichwillbeusedtonotifythecitizenaboutthestatusofthedocumentandthelocationofthenearestdocumentdispenserwhere the documents is sent.

• Theuser canenrollmost popular biometricmodalities supported in biometric passports andother documents – fingerprints, face and iris.

• In a secure link the validated biometric and biographic information is sent to the productionfacility.

• Onceproduced,thecardsareplacedinasecurecartridges,readyfordistribution.

• Thecitizen,afterbeingnotified,retrievesthecardinapreviouslyspecifieddocumentdispenserlocated in most convenient locations.

Benefits brought to the customer by acquiring such automated civil document issuance solution:

• Improvewaitingandprocessingtimes.

• Reducebiometricdatainconsistencyandunconformity(pose,faceexpression,andothers).

• Eliminateproblemswiththeintegrationofcomponentsfromdifferentproviders.

• Reduceerrorscausedbymanualprocedures.

• Improvetherobustnessofexistingsolutionsforpublicplaces.

• Reducetheenvironmentimpactonperformanceandquality.

• Easiertousebycitizensandoperators.

• Improvethecapacityofthedocumentdeliveryprocess.

• Enhancesecurityandefficiencyinthedocumentdistributionchain.

• Self-serviceandautomateddocumentdeliverysolution.

• Biometricenrollmentanddocumentdeliveryintegratedinasingleunit

• Reducewaitingtimespercitizentoobtainadocument.

A solution that targets people without any specific IT knowledge.

BIMS BENEFITS

WithBIMSourcustomergainsbiometricinformationsystemthatcanbeintegratedfastandadaptedfor the individual needs and requirements of the client. Every component of the system provides top performance guaranteeing solid results with great support when struggling to achieve the desirable results.

BIMS Biometric Data Acquisition application is manufacturer independent unified platform using multimodal biometrics allowing using more than one means of identification, thus providing that your systemcanretainahighthresholdrecognitionsettingandyoucanadjustbiometricqualitythresholdsfor your individual security level needs.

The cleanness of the biometric system is ensured by the BIMS Identity Case Management application becauseitminimizesthecountofconflictingpersoncases.Everypersoncaseiscrosscheckedtodetectif any person case element is unique.

The BIMS Mobile ID solutions offer the user freedom of movement as the portable and compact devices can be used almost anywhere.

The BIMS Verification against Identity Document gives its users certainty of whether the document holder is the rightful owner of particular document.

The BIMS Video Analytics enable the business owners and security providers a powerful tool to enhancing customer experience and their safety.

The BIMS Face Expert Workstation offers the police departments and other criminal investigation offices a powerful tool to analysing face of criminals caught “on tape”, creating a searchable face model and matching it in the database.

The BIMS Finger Expert Workstations also provides possibility to find criminals whose fingerprints have been found in the scene of crime.

All components together or as an individual solution offers the benefits of customization, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Sources used:

CredenceID www.credenceid.com

VisionBox www.vision-box.com

Cognitec www.cognitec.com