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Editorial Office: Elsevier Ltd The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB, UK Fax: +44 (0) 1865 843973 Email: [email protected] Website: www.biometrics-today.com Publisher: Greg Valero Email: [email protected] Editor: Tracey Caldwell Email: [email protected] Production Support Manager: Lin Lucas Email: [email protected] Subscription Information An annual subscription to Biometric Technology Today includes 10 issues and online access for up to 5 users. Prices: 1048 for all European countries & Iran US$1134 for all countries except Europe and Japan ¥139 335 for Japan (Prices valid until 31 December 2011) To subscribe send payment to the address above. Tel: +44 (0)1865 843687/Fax: +44 (0)1865 834971 Email: [email protected], or via www.biometrics-today.com. Subscriptions run for 12 months, from the date payment is received. Periodicals postage is paid at Rahway, NJ 07065, USA. Postmaster send all USA address corrections to: Biometric Technology Today, 365 Blair Road, Avenel, NJ 07001, USA This newsletter and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd, and the following terms and conditions apply to their use: Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier Global Rights Department, PO Box 800, Oxford OX5 1DX, UK; phone: +44 1865 843830, fax: +44 1865 853333, email: [email protected]. You may also contact Global Rights directly through Elsevier’s home page (www.elsevier.com), selecting first ‘Support & contact’, then ‘Copyright & permission’. In the USA, users may clear permissions and make payments through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; phone: +1 978 750 8400, fax: +1 978 750 4744, and in the UK through the Copyright Licensing Agency Rapid Clearance Service (CLARCS), 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP, UK; phone: +44 (0)20 7631 5555; fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5500. Other countries may have a local reprographic rights agency for payments. Derivative Works Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution. Permission of the Publisher is required for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. Electronic Storage or Usage Permission of the Publisher is required to store or use electronically any material contained in this journal, including any article or part of an article. Except as outlined above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the Publisher. Address permissions requests to: Elsevier Science Global Rights Department, at the mail, fax and email addresses noted above. Notice No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/ or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. Although all advertising material is expected to conform to ethical (medical) standards, inclusion in this publication does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of such product or of the claims made of it by its manufacturer.
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Biometric Technology Today
...Continued from front page identification if fingerprinting is problematic. There are also specifications for an option to add an algorithm that would provide oncard comparison of fingerprints rather than requiring a personal identification number (PIN). NIST’s draft of Special Publication 80076-2, ‘Biometric Data Specification for Personal Identity Verification’ is intended to lead to a replacement of the existing specifications, 800-76-1, published in 2007. NIST, along with the White House, has also launched the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) to create an ‘Identity Ecosystem’ in which there will be interoperable, secure, and reliable credentials available to consumers who want them. Consumers who want to participate will be able to obtain a single credential. Credentials will come in a number of forms from multiple suppliers but at this stage there has been no suggestion that biometric credentials will be included in the ‘ecosystem’. A Cross-Sector Digital Identity Initiative led by Northrop Grumman Corporation, Microsoft CA Technologies and CertiPath has been set up to bring together private and public sector participants to demonstrate key NSTIC concepts and to identify barriers to adoption across technical, political, social and economic domains.
Indian taxpayers toget biometric tax cards in addition to UID number
T
he Indian government is to issue biometric income tax Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards to taxpayers to address the problem of duplicate and fake tax identities, according to Indian press reports. The Indian Comptroller and Auditor General has asked the Income Tax department to ensure that a single taxpayer is not issued multiple cards. The proposed new biometric would bear the taxpayer’s fingerprints (two from each hand) and the face. The CAG report for 2010-11 on direct taxes revealed that 95.8m PANs were issued up to March 2010 but only 34.09m tax returns were filed in the last fiscal year. The biometric PAN card project was put on hold last year to avoid duplication with the UID numbers to be issued by the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI).
development
Fujitsu slims contactfree palm vein sensor
F
ujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories have hailed ‘the world’s smallest and slimmest contactfree palm vein authentication sensor’. The sensor’s smaller and slimmer form allows it to be incorporated into the design of PCs and other electronic devices. The sensor can capture up to 20 frames per second and users do not need to hold their hand motionless over the sensor, as before, but can perform authentication by placing their palm lightly over the sensor. Fujitsu points out that compared to finger veins, palm veins are more numerous and create complex patterns, resulting in a higher volume of data. As a result, the system’s recognition accuracy is high, with a false negatives rate of 0.01% and a false positives rate of 0.00008%. Furthermore, the fact that the system uses an individual’s thicker veins allows for stable operations over time.
Contact-free palm vein sensor, now smaller.
law enforcement
Brazil police to use long distance facial ID glasses
B
razilian police will use glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup, according to a report by The Daily Telegraph. A small camera fitted to the glasses will be able to capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing up to 13m faces. The system is reported to be able to compare biometric data at 46,000 points on a face and will immediately signal any matches to known criminals by means of a red signal that will appear on a small screen connected to the glasses. According to Brazilian website estadeo.com, the kit comes from an Israeli company.
May 2011
Editorial Office: Elsevier Ltd The Boulevard Langford Lane Kidlington Oxford OX5 1GB, UK Fax: +44 (0) 1865 843973 Email: [email protected] Website: www.biometrics-today.com Publisher: Greg Valero Email: [email protected] Editor: Tracey Caldwell Email: [email protected] Production Support Manager: Lin Lucas Email: [email protected] Subscription Information An annual subscription to Biometric Technology Today includes 10 issues and online access for up to 5 users. Prices: 1048 for all European countries & Iran US$1134 for all countries except Europe and Japan ¥139 335 for Japan (Prices valid until 31 December 2011) To subscribe send payment to the address above. Tel: +44 (0)1865 843687/Fax: +44 (0)1865 834971 Email: [email protected], or via www.biometrics-today.com. Subscriptions run for 12 months, from the date payment is received. Periodicals postage is paid at Rahway, NJ 07065, USA. Postmaster send all USA address corrections to: Biometric Technology Today, 365 Blair Road, Avenel, NJ 07001, USA This newsletter and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd, and the following terms and conditions apply to their use: Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier Global Rights Department, PO Box 800, Oxford OX5 1DX, UK; phone: +44 1865 843830, fax: +44 1865 853333, email: [email protected]. You may also contact Global Rights directly through Elsevier’s home page (www.elsevier.com), selecting first ‘Support & contact’, then ‘Copyright & permission’. In the USA, users may clear permissions and make payments through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; phone: +1 978 750 8400, fax: +1 978 750 4744, and in the UK through the Copyright Licensing Agency Rapid Clearance Service (CLARCS), 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP, UK; phone: +44 (0)20 7631 5555; fax: +44 (0)20 7631 5500. Other countries may have a local reprographic rights agency for payments. Derivative Works Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution. Permission of the Publisher is required for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. Electronic Storage or Usage Permission of the Publisher is required to store or use electronically any material contained in this journal, including any article or part of an article. Except as outlined above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the Publisher. Address permissions requests to: Elsevier Science Global Rights Department, at the mail, fax and email addresses noted above. Notice No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/ or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made. Although all advertising material is expected to conform to ethical (medical) standards, inclusion in this publication does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the quality or value of such product or of the claims made of it by its manufacturer.
02265 Pre-press/Printed by Mayfield Press (Oxford) Ltd
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Biometric Technology Today
...Continued from front page identification if fingerprinting is problematic. There are also specifications for an option to add an algorithm that would provide oncard comparison of fingerprints rather than requiring a personal identification number (PIN). NIST’s draft of Special Publication 80076-2, ‘Biometric Data Specification for Personal Identity Verification’ is intended to lead to a replacement of the existing specifications, 800-76-1, published in 2007. NIST, along with the White House, has also launched the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) to create an ‘Identity Ecosystem’ in which there will be interoperable, secure, and reliable credentials available to consumers who want them. Consumers who want to participate will be able to obtain a single credential. Credentials will come in a number of forms from multiple suppliers but at this stage there has been no suggestion that biometric credentials will be included in the ‘ecosystem’. A Cross-Sector Digital Identity Initiative led by Northrop Grumman Corporation, Microsoft CA Technologies and CertiPath has been set up to bring together private and public sector participants to demonstrate key NSTIC concepts and to identify barriers to adoption across technical, political, social and economic domains.
Indian taxpayers toget biometric tax cards in addition to UID number
T
he Indian government is to issue biometric income tax Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards to taxpayers to address the problem of duplicate and fake tax identities, according to Indian press reports. The Indian Comptroller and Auditor General has asked the Income Tax department to ensure that a single taxpayer is not issued multiple cards. The proposed new biometric would bear the taxpayer’s fingerprints (two from each hand) and the face. The CAG report for 2010-11 on direct taxes revealed that 95.8m PANs were issued up to March 2010 but only 34.09m tax returns were filed in the last fiscal year. The biometric PAN card project was put on hold last year to avoid duplication with the UID numbers to be issued by the Unique Identity Authority of India (UIDAI).
development
Fujitsu slims contactfree palm vein sensor
F
ujitsu Frontech and Fujitsu Laboratories have hailed ‘the world’s smallest and slimmest contactfree palm vein authentication sensor’. The sensor’s smaller and slimmer form allows it to be incorporated into the design of PCs and other electronic devices. The sensor can capture up to 20 frames per second and users do not need to hold their hand motionless over the sensor, as before, but can perform authentication by placing their palm lightly over the sensor. Fujitsu points out that compared to finger veins, palm veins are more numerous and create complex patterns, resulting in a higher volume of data. As a result, the system’s recognition accuracy is high, with a false negatives rate of 0.01% and a false positives rate of 0.00008%. Furthermore, the fact that the system uses an individual’s thicker veins allows for stable operations over time.
Contact-free palm vein sensor, now smaller.
law enforcement
Brazil police to use long distance facial ID glasses
B
razilian police will use glasses fitted with facial recognition equipment to identify troublemakers at the 2014 World Cup, according to a report by The Daily Telegraph. A small camera fitted to the glasses will be able to capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing up to 13m faces. The system is reported to be able to compare biometric data at 46,000 points on a face and will immediately signal any matches to known criminals by means of a red signal that will appear on a small screen connected to the glasses. According to Brazilian website estadeo.com, the kit comes from an Israeli company.
May 2011