Date: Jan 15, 2010 Source: ARMY SBIR Success Stories (
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As the need for rapid and positive identification of individuals' increases, there is an inevitable global rise in biometric identification systems. Requirements for these systems are driven from such applications as commercial fraud reduction in financial systems and patient identification within a healthcare setting, and from military applications such as securing our nation's borders against terrorism. While more and more commercial and government organizations are implementing biometrics for personal identity management and security applications, both near and long-term operational success has been hampered due to fundamental limitations in accuracy that are unique to each currently employed biometric technology (fingerprint, facial recognition, iris recognition, etc.).
As a result of this technology performance gap, the industry has responded by capturing multiple biometric measurements such as fingerprint, facial, and iris biometric samples to achieve the desired system accuracy. This approach, while promising, has lacked the robust scientific analysis needed to unequivocally answer key fundamental questions.
The solution developed by Ultra-Scan Corporation, AMBIS or Automatic Multimodal Biometric Identification System, is a mathematically optimum solution that operates with any number of different biometric modalities, supports multiple vendor technologies for a given modality, and integrates seamlessly without the need for modification of existing algorithms. This technology will enable the virtual integration of global multimodal databases and permit simultaneous, seamless searching.
The processing power of agencies such as the U.S. Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Department of Homeland Security as well as the UK Home Office will be significantly enhanced as these agencies now have the technology to integrate the strengths of their independent identification technologies to provide unparalleled system performance.
Phase III Impacts
Ultra-Scan has received $1M in Army research funding, over $6M in federal and private sector sales, and has one U.S. patent.
