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US 2006/0050933 A1Published application
Single image based multi-biometric system and method
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsHartwig Adam, Hartmut Neven, Johannes Steffens
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Abstract
This disclosure describes methods to integrate face, skin and iris recognition to provide a biometric system with unprecedented level of accuracy for identifying individuals. A compelling feature of this approach is that it only requires a single digital image depicting a human face as source data.
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A face recognition method, comprising:
- selecting a single image of a face;
- locating facial features in the single image;
- comparing facial features located in the single image with facial features of a reference image;
- comparing iris features in the single image with iris characteristic in the reference image;
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- calculating a similarity score between the single image and the reference image based on the facial feature comparison and the iris feature comparison.
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A face recognition apparatus, comprising:
- means for selecting a single image of a face;
- means for locating facial features in the single image;
- means for comparing facial features located in the single image with facial features of a reference image;
- means for comparing iris features in the single image with iris characteristic in the reference image;
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- means for calculating a similarity score between the single image and the reference image based on the facial feature comparison and the iris feature comparison.
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