Face biometrics without intrusion in airport

In recent years biometric applications has start to move from research labs to real world applications. Examples of this movement are the huge amount of fingerprint sensors and the increased interest in face recognition and iris identification as mature technologies to be placed in access control. These leading technologies are in the roots of the development of two fields of interest both related with security applications. First one is the Automatic Border Crossing (ABC) systems. These systems use biometric technology to avoid police inspection of passports; data considered is mainly facial and fingerprint verification. And second one is protection of critical infrastructure. In this field, computer vision and surveillance systems are the selected technologies. Both fields can be combined in the use of placed cameras in one critical infrastructure like an airport to perform face identification. One of the main advantages of facial biometry over fingerprint or iris identification is that can be used without the awareness of the subject. This keynote speech presents a project developed in an airport to evaluate face identification considering placed cameras. Performance decreases if the subject is non-collaborative or in a high uncontrolled environment. Lessons learned and results obtained from surveillance cameras and comparison with other environments and systems will be shown.