advances in capturing child fingerprints · 2017-09-29 · noida, bangalore, kanagawa, irving,...

Advances in capturing child fingerprints

Akash Ghai (NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.)

Yoshinori Koda (NEC Corporation)

NEC Introduction

NEC Super Tower Japan

NEC Technologies India, Technology Professionals in India

▌Started in 2005 as a joint venture between NEC Corporation and HCL Technologies (NEC HCL System Technologies Ltd) . Since 2013 NEC Technologies India is a fully owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation.

▌NEC Biometrics Excellence Center (NBEC): NBEC was launched with the vision to be a Global Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the biometrics domain. NBEC was started in March 2010 as part of NEC India Pvt. Ltd. In October 2014, NBEC became part of NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

NBEC provides world-class engineering skills and competency catering to NEC's global identification solutions and integrated security solutions business, including its renowned automated fingerprint identification solutions and face recognition solutions.

NBEC has partnered most NEC overseas units

NEC, Technologies leader for +110 Years

▌ $26 billion in revenues

▌ Almost 100,000 employees worldwide

▌ 217 consolidated subsidiaries

▌ 74,000 Patents Worldwide (many in biometrics)

Advances in capturing child fingerprints

5 © NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

Why is Child Fingerprint Identification requested?

Source: http://www.unicef.org/immunization/images/660x423_IW2014_VaccTable_large.jpg

Preventing Newborn Baby Swaps Identifying Missing Children Avoiding Child Trafficking Tracking Vaccination Schedule/History National ID Program


Example Use case: Child Medical history linked to Aadhaar

• Avoid miss/duplicate vaccination

• Avoid duplicate tests/medicines

• Reduced costs

• Better Health

• Access to previous medication, reports

• Avoid misidentification

• Avoid duplication of medication

• Better Management

• Efficient distribution of vaccines

• Reduced shortages

• Reduced costs

• Aadhaar more beneficial to society

• Additional Revenue models

UIDAI Government

& Health Organisations

Child & Parent

Doctors


Challenges in capture of child fingerprints

No Standard

Difficulty in getting a young child to be still

Child is young to

follow instructio

ns

Small area to capture

Thin and soft skin

Wet or moist

fingers Existing 1000ppi scanners

are bulky/he

avy

PID scanners support

resolution up to

500ppi


High Resolution CMOS With SHF Glass


CMOS Capability / MTF Chart, 500 lines pair /cm

MTF : Modulation Transfer Function


Captured Image taken by 1,270ppi CMOS+SHF

Captured by ZAK-001 Resolution: 1,270ppi Method: CMOS+SHF

Subject: Left Thumb taken from 10 months old Infant


Scattered Light Direct Reading (SLDR) Method


Scattered Light Direct Reading (SLDR) Method

Light from valley portion is diffused at the space and reaches image sensor at a low intensity.

Ridge portion Valley portion

Light with low intensity Light with high intensity

Irradiate inside of a finger

Ir LED Ir LED

Light from ridge portion directly reaches image sensor with high intensity.

CMOS

SHF

Ridge portion

Valley portion

SLDR-Method is the most applicable way to capture the thin, slim and small fingerprint at the HW. SHF Glass area is also the core technology to enhance the information from finger more clear and delivers the information to CMOS without any information loss after its process. Thanks to the SLDR-Method, unit delivers high resolution images (1,270 ppi) that facilitate the recognition of ridges on thin and small fingers such as newborn infant.


Captured Image taken by 1,270ppi CMOS+SHF+SLDR

Captured by ZAK-002 Resolution: 1,270ppi

Method: CMOS+SHF+SLDR (Side LED only) Subject: Left Thumb taken from 1 month old newborn


Child Fingerprint Scanner

ZAKURO Series


Latest Prototype ZAK-108 (=ZAK-008)

3mm 7.5mm

ZAK-007 ZAK-008

Taper shape

Rounded form

ZAK-007 ZAK-108(=ZAK-008)

7.5mm

Power supply for Roof Style IrLED

ZAK-007 ZAK-008


Captured Image taken by ZAKURO scanner

Captured by ZAK-108 Resolution: 1,270ppi

Method: CMOS+SHF+SLDR (Side LED only) Subject: Right Thumb taken from 6 hours old newborn


Resolution Comparison

500ppi 1,270ppi

Captured by 500ppi sensor (Left) and ZAK-108 (Right) Resolution: 500ppi / 1,270ppi

Method: Optical / CMOS+SHF+SLDR Subject: Captured from 7 month old infant


Conclusion and Next Step

▌With further research and evaluation, the project team is confident that this new method provides a stable and reliable way to capture and match child prints for identification purposes.

▌The use of this technology has many applications that can be a benefit to society that include the maintenance of accurate health and immunization records, immigration processing and more accurate data on population and birth rates.

▌Hardware Innovation for additional capability.

▌Compatibility consideration for AFIS backend.

▌POC for long term tracking (a few years, at least).

▌Acceptance for free approach to capture the child print.

(Free from product standardization for POC Prototype).


References

▌Advances in Capturing Child Fingerprints: A High Resolution CMOS Image Sensor with SLDR Method (Yoshinori Koda, Teruyuki Higuchi and Anil K. Jain ): http://www.cse.msu.edu/rgroups/biometrics/Publications/Fingerprint/Koda_ChildFingerprintHighResSLDR.pdf

http://www.cse.msu.edu/rgroups/biometrics/Publications/Fingerprint/Koda_ChildFingerprintHighResSLDR.pdf





Corporate Overview


NEC Introduction

▌Technology leader for 110+ years

▌$26 billion in revenues

▌Almost 100,000 employees worldwide

▌Ranked #444 in Fortune's "Global 500 2015“

▌217 consolidated subsidiaries

▌74,000 Patents Worldwide (many in biometrics)

Founder of NEC Kunihiko Iwadare

Current President of NEC Takashi Niino

NEC Group Vision 2017 To be a leading global company leveraging the power of innovation to realize an information society friendly to humans and the earth

NEC Super Tower Japan


NEC Technologies India Private Limited (NTIL)

▌Started in 2005 as a joint venture between NEC Corporation and HCL Technologies (NEC HCL System Technologies Ltd) . Since 2013 NEC Technologies India is a fully owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation.

▌Noida, Bangalore, Kanagawa, Irving, Singapore

▌Operations of NTI

Product Engineering and R&D,

Industry Solutions,

Global Business Expansion Services,

Japanese Communication Coordination Centre

NTI’s Mission Strengthen NEC's global business by delivering innovative products, solutions and services, leveraging NEC's technologies and solutions combined with our offshore development capability and domain expertise

Anil Gupta CEO & MD


About NBEC

Key Strengths NBEC provides world-class engineering skills and competency catering to NEC's global identification solutions and integrated security solutions business, including its renowned automated fingerprint identification solutions and face recognition solutions. NBEC is involved in developing flexible, open, service oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions for extremely accurate systems in technology environments ranging from highly-scalable server solutions to large-scale highly-available distributed computing models.

NEC Biometrics Excellence Center (NBEC)

NBEC was launched with the vision to be a Global Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the biometrics domain. NBEC was started in March 2010 as part of NEC India Pvt. Ltd. In October 2014, NBEC became part of NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

NBEC spans the application spectrum for global biometrics projects

NBEC has partnered most NEC overseas units such as NEC Corporation, NEC America ,NEC Argentina on global biometrics projects. The range of products developed, enhanced, or supported by NBEC includes Livescan Capture enhancements, SDKs, new generation GUIs, middleware solutions managing millions of transactions each day, backend matchers, and the next generation of NEC biometric applications.

NEC's biometrics solutions are utilized by more than 200 applications in over 30 countries, including law enforcement, civil identification and national election systems.

NBEC Global Footprint – Biometrics Projects

Key partners that NBEC collaborates with include NEC Corporation, NEC America, UIDAI.

Quality Focus:

• NBEC secured CMMI Level-3 Certification on 15th March, 2013

• Started the journey for CMMI Level-5 Certification in 2015


NBEC: Key Engagements

Key Engagements: UIDAI Aadhaar

NEC’s knowledge and technical consultancy was critical since the database size envisaged was 1+ billion records!

At present, the current solution can o Enrol 1.2 million records each day! o Perform 500,000 searches each day! o Support deployment on 600+ servers!

Key Engagements: NEC America (NECAM) ODC

NBEC contributes to NEC America (NECAM) biometric solutions in the areas of product development, testing, system engineering, documentation.

SmartID: Mobile ID application on Android and iOS. It supports multi-modal, multi-factor authentication. Currently undergoing pilots across multiple US counties.

NeoFace Reveal & Assure: Responsive web application providing advanced image enhancements, versatility using HTML5 capabilities.

NeoFace Links: Solution for finding unique face in large volumes of evidence.

Neo EVA (Enterprise Video Analytics): Scalable video surveillance application with the capability to process both online and offline video.

Key Engagements: OpenStack

Bangalore team works as an extension to Noida team. Few modules such as HEAT and Ironic are being executed at Bangalore.

Key Engagements: Software Factory India

The Software Factory Service (SWF) is used mainly by Japan-led projects. SWF-India supports software development with overseas development team participation.

The services provided include (English) Support Desks, Implementation Guides & User Guides along with Training Video Materials.

advances in capturing child fingerprints · 2017-09-29 · noida, bangalore, kanagawa, irving,...

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