High Confidence Multimodal Biometric System

The development of a rapid and accurate personal identification system improves our nation’s capability in identifying potential terrorists and provides the most reliable means for securing government or private industry’s confidential or classified secrets. However, single biometric based applications have not been widely deployed due to the variation in accuracy and their inability to prevent fraudulent attacks on the system. An Automated Multimodal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS) along with a multimodal biometric based Identity Management Portal will be developed under this initiative, tunable to enable rapid and much more accurate identification of individuals in two typical operations: 1) high volume low security identification and verification, 2) high security low volume identification and verification. The system will use four of the most accurate individual biometric technologies available today including: 1) ultrasonic fingerprint identification 2) iris recognition 3) facial imaging and 4) signature. An Identity Management Portal will be developed that provides a superior methodology for improving biometric data capture. The captured biometric data will then be processed using an automatic multimodal biometric identification system where the output data from each biometric source will be fused to provide a highly accurate decision.