Facial Compliance for Travel Documents
Igor Lucena Peixoto Andrezza, Erick V. C. L. Borges, Rajiv A. T. Mota, Joao Janduy B. Primo · 2016
Biometric characteristics allow identifying an individual based on who they are. This paper focuses on using the face of a subject in electronic identity documents. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has endorsed the adoption of the face as the globally interoperable biometric characteristic. Soon afterward, the International Standard Organization (ISO) proposed the ISO/IEC 19794-5 standard in accordance with ICAO directives. In this paper, a new approach for the evaluation of three ISO/ICAO requirements (unnatural skin tone, shadows across the face and flash reflection on skin) is presented. The results achieved by the proposed methods have overcome almost all the works in the literature. For the "shadows across the face" requirement, the proposed method obtained a result 41% better than the best result in the literature. The proposed method is able to keep the rejection rate equal to zero even when it does not achieve the best equal error rate.