News from Global Identity Summit
MorphoTrust’s ID platform, Crossmatch’s new 10-print scanner, MorphoTrak’s video analytics
22 September, 2015
category: Biometrics, Corporate, Digital ID
MorphoTrust unveils identity-as-a-service platform
MorphoTrust USA introduced the Identix Trusted Identity-as-a-Service platform at the Global Identity Summit. The system provides a set of technology building blocks that can be used by commercial and government organizations to verify identities with a high degree of confidence.
The platform is a hosted solution for public and private clouds and is optimized for searching, processing, authenticating, and comparing various types of identity data in order to verify individuals to create online accounts, grant access to applications, services or benefits and investigate potential fraud or misconduct. Server-based and on-premise implementations are also available.
Future releases will include document authentication, real-time face recognition, workflow management, and a catalog of API’s adding even more tools for identity assurance.
In addition, Identix Mobile Software Developer Kits will enable developers to bring identity verification to mobile devices, enabling high quality biometric and document capture as well as authentication. The Identix platform serves a variety of markets such as financial services, healthcare, higher education, government, travel and consumer transactions.
Crossmatch launches new 10-print scanner
Crossmatch announced the launch of the new Guardian 200 ten-print scanner and introduction of the latest models of L Scan palm scanners at the Global Identity Summit. These new livescan solutions offer customers rapid capture fingerprint and palm print devices that meet the enrollment needs of government and law enforcement agencies around the world.
The Guardian 200 is suited for attended and semi-attended applications where speed and image quality are necessary. The Guardian 200 is positioned between the Guardian 300 and the Guardian Module, offering Crossmatch customers a ten-print device to meet their exact needs.
The Guardian 300 incorporates unique touch screen-based user guidance and workflow control capabilities. The Guardian Module offers a slim housing and robust SDK for easy and seamless installation into workstations and automated border/passport control kiosks, establishing itself as a top choice of integrators.
The latest Crossmatch L Scan palm scanners now offer USB 3.0 connectivity along with image quality and capture speed. The L Scan line, available in 500 and 1000 ppi, addresses the need for compact, high resolution, rapid finger and palm print capture for criminal identification, forensic analysis and enrollment. L Scan scanners easily acquire upper, lower and writer’s palms, as well as flats, slaps and rolls. They are fully compliant with FBI standards and support submissions to the National Palm Print System.
MorphoTrak launches video analytics tool
Morpho, through its U.S. subsidiary MorphoTrak, announced the launch of Morpho Video Investigator (MVI), its latest in video analytics technology at the Global Identity Summit.
MVI was developed in response to the need in law enforcement and intelligence communities for a way to quickly assess vast amounts of video for investigative purposes. While images and information of significant forensic value can be found in videos, the sheer volume of data renders extraction of this information time-consuming and labor intensive. Today, analysts and investigators face a daunting workload that has outpaced investigative resources.
To meet the challenge, Morpho paired its facial recognition software with the power of video analytics for motion, person, and license plate recognition to create MVI. The purpose of MVI is to process and analyze large quantities of video data and provide actionable intelligence to investigators in a fraction of the time it takes with traditional methods. The embedded algorithms process video sequences by detecting, searching and reporting the depicted elements of interest.
As MVI sorts through volumes of raw data, the video analyst can start a review based on the most relevant data, saving the time and effort normally spent watching the entire video. In this way, the analyst finds clues faster, and is able to exploit them more quickly. Thanks to the collaborative case management tools embedded in MVI, multiple analysts can work on the same case simultaneously. MVI accelerates the analyst’s work of identifying suspected criminals, terrorists and other persons of interest across multiple video encounters.