Biometrics in the Maritime Domain

Biometrics in moving maritime environments presents some unique challenges. Even if the naval shipboard sensor is in a complex gimbaled mount for stabilization, the inherent motion of the smaller craft in which the subjects of interest are located means the system must deal with motion, potentially significant motion. The proposed work, will build on the success of Phase 1 to develop a system using FPGA-enhanced multi-mega-pixel imaging to address field of vision (FOV) issues in real-time acquisition, develop/analyze intra-frame motion blur estimation, extending Securics’ RandomEyes™ techniques and Failure Analysis from Similarity Surface Theory (FASST™) to address inherent atmospheric and motion blur models. The Phase II effort will develop a new approach for evaluation of long-range biometrics for moving subject. The effort will collect and then test on maritime data consisting of non-cooperating subjects. The work leverages our previous and ongoing effort in long range face-based biometrics. The resulting systems will provide new and important improvements for long-range biometrics in the maritime domain.