EUROPEAN IT GRAND PRIZE:
ADVANCED SECURITY SYSTEM

3D RECOGNITION: In the future, it will be impossible to hide your identity when you go through Guardia’s 3D recognition system. It increases security in airports.

A small Danish company has developed a 3D recognition system which can significantly increase security in airports, and gives the authorities a unique weapon in the fight against terrorism. The firm recently received The European Information Society Technologies Grand Prize for a groundbreaking product representing the best of European innovation in information technology.

“Advanced biometric 3D algorithms are used which can record the whole face in a fraction of a second.”

The system recognises with more than 99% certainty the person who goes through the security control. In three seconds the system has registered the person and the data is stored in a database. Within the same time period, the person’s data is compared with the database’s other records, and the person can be recognised – and so given access –or recognised as having a false identity.

Revealing
“The unique thing about the system is the technology which gives a fully automatic three dimensional image of the human face,” says the inventor of the system Kield Martin Kieldsen, who has established the company Guardia A/S for marketing the system. “Not just the person’s physical expression, but by adding an infrared 3D image we are able to recognise a number of underlying facts about the person such as cold and hot bridges in the face, determined by blood vessels and thickness of skin. Because although most human beings can change their look, they cannot change the basic structure of the face. My system reveals that.” The core in Guardia’s control system is the combination of optical and infrared photography and registration, as well as the underlying software which measures more than 200 different parameters. Advanced biometric 3D algorithms are used which can record the whole face in a fraction of a second.

100% sure
“We are already further developing the system by adding even more bioinformatics,” says Kieldsen. If a person is not initially recognised solely by the three dimensional image, the infrared image which gives information about heat from the face is used. If that also fails to make a match, then the next level of bioinformation can be used, such as voice recognition, fingerprints or iris recognition. These add the extras to the system which makes the recognition 100% certain.” Guardia’s control system is not only intended for security control in airports, but in every situation where absolute assurance is required that issued credentials are used only by the right persons, such as cashpoint machines or access control to buildings. The system also makes it possible to cross-reference networks without compromising the individual’s personal safety.

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