HumanScan GmbH, a leading biometric authentication solutions developer, offers the BioID SDK, the first multimodal biometric system that can be easily integrated into existing network applications and protection systems to greatly enhance security, privacy and user convenience.

BioID uses three human traits in definable combinations, simultaneously - face, voice and lip movement - to ensure high recognition accuracy, tolerance and maximum access protection. With BioID it becomes possible to protect sensitive information and capital assets throughout the enterprise - from information transferred over corporate networks and the Internet to physical access control.

The BioID SDK can be fundamentally used anywhere, where persons must be clearly identified, and in applications where conventional protection devices like PINs, passwords, keys or cards are currently used. This inherent flexibility allows organizations to custom-fit BioID within the organization based on the need for biometric authentication over time.

Selected basic features include:

• Automatic handling of camera and/or microphone input devices
• User enrollment wizard
• User recognition (verification or identification)
• Selectable combination of face, voice, lip movement recognition
• Template storage to database, local PC or Smart Card
• Automatic logging and Log-viewer

Advanced features include:

Development/integration features:

• BioID SDK (API Toolkit)
• Adaptable client interface
• Supports BioAPI
• Provides special BioID functions via BioID API

Summary of BioID SDK Facts

• Based on the core strengths of the BioID technology:
• True multimodality: The ability to analyze three biometric traits, face, voice and lip movement simultaneously.
• Low-cost implementation: Requires only a standard camera (e.g. USB) and microphone.
• Easy to use and unobtrusive recognition: Users simply look into the camera and say, for example, their name.
• Software modules provide enhanced flexibility to allow the customization of user enrollment, recognition (identification and/or verification) and user management functions to fit project requirements. Additional components allow BioID to be integrated into web applications, physical access systems, or used with smart cards.

BioID SDK Benefits

• Increased speed, accuracy and flexibility: The improved algorithmic increases BioID recognition speed and accuracy and permits potentially unlimited number of users. BioID can be used for identification and/or verification in the authentication process:

  Verification – the system confirms whether the person in question is actually the person who he or she claims to be. Their current biometric traits are compared only with their pre-recorded reference data (1:1 comparison).

  Identification – a current biometric data set is compared against all the reference data of various persons recorded at an earlier time (1:n comparison).

• Enhanced Usability: The BioID graphic user interface is streamlined, making operation simple even for users and administrators with no prior biometrics experience.
• Reduced Template Size: BioID SDK has reduced the BioID template size (the biometric reference patterns of the person to be recognized) from formerly 270K, than 16K to now about 6K. The reduced templates can be easily transferred over the Web for Internet-based applications, or stored onto a smart card, or USB token for ID or physical access solutions.

For more information about the BioID SDK, please visit www.bioid.com, or contact HumanScan: