SBIR-STTR Award

Our ability to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of biometric devices deployed in mission critical environments is of paramount importance. In order to rapidly develop and deploy new testing and validation methods we must create a development environment that combines a sophisticated set of software tools with a carefully crafted database of sample biometric templates (both legitimate and imposters). This database will be generated from a broad demographic base and be accessible via a plug and play interface of both legacy and state-of-the-art biometric devices. The BLADE provides a secure and extensible environment for the advancement and development of sophisticated methods and techniques for rapidly advancing the state-of-the-art in biometric liveness testing.

Benefits:
The development of new biometric liveness testing methods, testing algorithms along research database of fingerprint and iris originals and counterfeits.

Keywords:
Biometric liveness, liveness testing, fingerprint, iris, validation, counterfeit detection

Biometric technologies have advanced rapidly over the past few years and are increasing steadily in popularity and deployment. In particular, fingerprint biometrics are being integrated to protect our nations critical infrastructure. Public and private industries, along with government agencies, are rapidly implementing biometric identification as part of their overall security policy. The International Biometrics Group projects that fingerprint revenues will grow from $198 million in 2003 to $1.493 billion in 2008, compromising 32% of the entire biometrics market. The objective of this Phase II effort is to develop fingerprint biometric liveness detection software that provides detection against potential attacks targeting our nationís biometric infrastructure. This software will be directly integrated into the current install-base via driver updates by the manufacturers and bundled with the newest deployments.. Specifically, during Phase II we will expand the scope, depth and breadth of the validation checks currently being employed by the Phase I Biometric Liveness Authentication Development Environment, (BLADE) Proof of Concept. We will also integrate the resulting technology into multiple Identix biometric fingerprint technologies to demonstrate the ease with which the install base can be updated and new devices can be introduced..

Keywords:
Biometric Identification, Biometrics, Fake Fingerp