Monday, June 26, 2006
Iris scanner for mobile phones
gadgetsWe can read on the xvista's website that this British company invented a technology of scan and recognition of the iris, able to run on embedded systems like cell phones or pocket PC, eventually equipped with a camera.
Once the eye's picture is in the device, it takes less than one second for the algorithm to treat it and identify the person to whom belongs this iris.
In order to give a idea, an SD card of 256 MB can contain 250,000 descriptions of iris. Then we could imagine bigger mass storage devices or simply a remote and shared database. Then come police and military applications: xvista is currently working in collaboration with the UK Minsitry of Defence.
According to the company, the probability to find 2 human with the same iris' identification is 1 on 7 billion. They add that, according to governmental tests, the retinal recognition reaches a success rate of 96%. The digital recognition 81% and the facial recognition 69%.
Finally, let's quote that Canadians researchers are working on a project of recognition of the cerebral waves, which is theorically error free. However, the commercial realisation will take a few years yet...
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