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Iris Identification on Trial Eye Test for Airport Passengers
Iris Identification on Trial BBC News has an interesting new article about biometric identification of people: Airport Tests Passenger Eye IDs. It seems the people allowed to take the test will have to 'register' first, whereby someone associates their iris with an ID and a valid passport. This will save a lot of time to customs officers who have to manually check through a lot of passports. The chances of someone slipping through the net during these quick manual tests are very high. So if the bulk of the regular travelers are being eye-scanned, the customs officers will pay more attention to the irregular cases. It seems like a win-win situation, assuming the technology is reliable of course ;) | Alex J. Champandard 933 posts. Sunday 10 February, 14:58 Reply
Link with Artificial Intelligence I forgot to mention the link with Artificial Intelligence! I seem to take that for granted now... Basically, the identification of the iris is a Pattern Recognition problem, no doubt using the features of the eye as features (iris size, colour). They possibly even use a high-resolution image of the iris, and try to match that. I'm not sure how tolerant the system is to error though... so if you get red eyes when really tired, or if your iris expands when drunk, you may not be able to get through! | Alex J. Champandard 933 posts. Sunday 10 February, 15:26 Reply
Iris Identification I have some questions about this Iris identification deal. what if there are two people, for example identical twins, that have the same DNA. wouldn't that affect the Iris so it would be the same, since the DNA has all your genetic information? so would it work there? Is it really that accurate? Also, what are they planning on doing like take a picture of the Iris, when you are born or something? Doesn't the Iris change over a period of time? Can someone please e-mail me back at lanana89@yahoo.com the answers to my questions before February 4, 2003? Thank you so much. | lalala 1 posts. Monday 03 February, 18:02 Reply