A Robust Non-cooperative Face/Iris Recognition Scheme from a Distance in Maritime Domain Navy STTR FY2007 Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2007 Topic No.: N07-T034 Topic Title: A Robust Non-cooperative Face/Iris Recognition Scheme from a Distance in Maritime Domain Proposal No.: N074-034-0373 Firm: Intelligent Automation, Inc. 15400 Calhoun Drive Suite 400 Rockville, Maryland 20855 Contact: Genshe Chen Phone: (301) 294-5218 Web Site: www.i-a-i.com Abstract: Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI), its academic partner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Dr. Qiang Ji as the lead and its industrial partner Sarnoff Corporation with Dr. James R. Matey as the lead, propose a robust, automatic, innovative scheme for face recognition from a distance of as far as 50m and iris recognition from a distance of upto 10m to be used in maritime domain for recognition of non-cooperative individuals in real-time. The image sensors of the proposed face and iris recognition scheme consist of a dual camera system. One of the cameras is a low-resolution CCD camera. The image obtained from this camera is used for detecting and continuously multitracking potential targets within the wide field of view (WFOV). The second camera provides narrow field of view (NFOV) image (CCD or NIR camera). Different from the WFOV camera, this camera provides a high-resolution image enabling eye detection (as far as 50m) and iris recognition from distances up to 10m. In the proposed scheme, a multimodality fusion approach is also proposed for fusing the face and iris biometrics. The proposed face recognition scheme can be made functional for day and night operations (24/7) by replacing the CCD cameras with high-resolution long-distance infrared cameras. Benefits: The proposed automated multi-biometric fusion (face/Iris recognition) scheme has tremendous applications potential in many military applications. It can also be directly used for developing of advanced mission planning and emergency preparedness decision support systems. IAI is already a contractor on the Future Combat System (FCS) program. We are teamed with Honeywell on the FCS-Platform Soldier Mission Readiness System and with Northrop Grumman on FCS-logistic decision support system. We will leverage these relationships to identify the end FCS customer, and work with these teams to transition our Phase 2 technology into the FCS program. In addition, our industry partner, LM, Sarnoff can also transition these technologies. The market for military applications is quite large. Other potential commercial applications include law enforcement, border and coast patrol, intrusion detection, business intelligent, and global awareness. The proposed system can also be installed in public places (e.g. the check point for a court house), controlling a passage volume such that any person(s) walks into the volume can be tracked and recognized in a natural and non-cooperative manner. The size of this market is not small and may grow rapidly with the commercial demand in homeland security. We expect the aggregated market size will be similar to that of military applications. Return