SBIR/STTR Research Award
A Robust Non-cooperative Face/Iris Recognition Scheme from a Distance in Maritime Domain
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- Intelligent Automation, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2007-07-19
- Contract end date
- 2008-05-19
- UEI
- C3QJD7VXG167
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N07-T034
Research abstract
Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), its academic partner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Dr. Qiang Ji as the lead and its industrial partner Sarnoff Corporation with Dr. James R. Matey as the lead, propose a robust, automatic, innovative scheme for face recognition from a distance of as far as 50m and iris recognition from a distance of upto 10m to be used in maritime domain for recognition of non-cooperative individuals in real-time. The image sensors of the proposed face and iris recognition scheme consist of a dual camera system. One of the cameras is a low-resolution CCD camera. The image obtained from this camera is used for detecting and continuously multitracking potential targets within the wide field of view (WFOV). The second camera provides narrow field of view (NFOV) image (CCD or NIR camera). Different from the WFOV camera, this camera provides a high-resolution image enabling eye detection (as far as 50m) and iris recognition from distances up to 10m. In the proposed scheme, a multimodality fusion approach is also proposed for fusing the face and iris biometrics. The proposed face recognition scheme can be made functional for day and night operations (24/7) by replacing the CCD cameras with high-resolution long-distance infrared cameras.
Technology keywords
Not reported
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Research funding history
1,182 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2021). Reported award amounts total $369,972,257. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Transportation, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security