THE PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A CCD CAMERA INTERFACED TO A COMPUTER TO PHOTOGRAPH AND ANALYZE, IN REAL TIME BY A PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM, THE DIGITIZED RETINAL PATTERNS OF HUMANS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IDENTIFICATION.

THE PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE FEASIBILITY OF USING A CCD CAMERA INTERFACED TO A COMPUTER TO PHOTOGRAPH AND ANALYZE, IN REAL TIME BY A PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEM, THE DIGITIZED RETINAL PATTERNS OF HUMANS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IDENTIFICATION. THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE PHASE I RESEARCH PLAN ARE: (A) THE ESTABLISHMENT OFA RETINAL DATA BASE MODEL TO DETERMINE THE LEGITIMATE, INFORMATION CARRYING FEATURES OF HUMAN VASCULATURE PATTERN TO BE USED BY THE FEATURE EXTRACTION MODULE OF THE PATTERN RECOGNIITION SYSTEM; (B) THE DESIGN OF THE MOST APPROPRIATE RETINAL PATTERN CLASSIFICATION (IDENTI-FICATION) ALGORITHM BASED UPON THE INFORMATION GATHERED IN THE RETINALDATA BASE MODEL; (C) THE BENCHMARKING AND FEASIBILITY STUDY OF DETERMINING WHICH CCD CAMERA IS MOST SUITABLE IN DIGITIZING IMAGES OF HUMAN RETINAS.