Description

ID:Talks are bonus presentations in the exhibit hall and are not components of the formal agenda produced by the FedID Planning Committee.

Current biometric modalities include fingerprint, palm, voice, face, gate, iris and DNA recognition, among others. Our technique involves biometric identification using the retina’s unique blood vasculature pattern. The retina is unique in that this organ is completely sequestered within the eye. Thus, in comparison to the other modalities, images of the retina cannot be obtained without the subject’s knowledge- an important feature in some applications. Additionally, as there is a growing trend towards liveness detection, this technique incorporates laser speckle contrast imaging such that images of the vascular pattern are produced if liveness is confirmed by detection of blood flow through the retinal vessels. This “built-in” feature of biometric identification via retina scanning with liveness detection greatly reduces the susceptibility to deception by “spoof attacks.” In this presentation, the anatomic differences between the iris and retina will be discussed. Image acquisition technique, time to acquire images, intended applications, as well as a comparison between iris and retina-based systems will also be presented.