Frequently asked questions

General questions

What is biometrics?
What is multimodal biometrics?
Did you develop BioID or is it a clever combination of products from other vendors?

 

Technical questions

Is BioID BioAPI (Global biometric standard) compliant?
Where can I get technical support?

 

General answers

What is biometrics?
Biometrics in general is the science of measuring biological data. In information technology, biometrics refers to technologies for authenticating a person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic.
Physiological ("static") characteristics are based directly on parts of the human body (e.g. face, fingerprint, iris), behavioral ("dynamic") characteristics are based on an action taken by a person (e.g. voice, gait, lip movement).
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What is multimodal biometrics?
BioID is designed to enable the use of several different biometrics. Any of them can be combined in a so-called "fusion" to get one result, which has a better accuracy than using each of the single modalities. This technique of fusing together several biometrics is called multimodal biometrics.
Special advantages can be gained by fusing static and dynamic traits (see biometrics).
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Did you develop BioID or is it a clever combination of products from other vendors?
BioID is fully developed by us. This enables us to improve and change all aspects of BioID. We have full knowledge of the concept, the mechanisms and the algorithms used in our products. And we own patents in key technologies of biometrics, pattern recognition, authentication and system security used exclusively in our products.
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Technical answers

Is BioID BioAPI (Global biometric standard) compliant?
Yes.
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Where can I get technical support?
Additional information is available on the customer login site or the BioAPI Homepage. For further information contact us at:
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