1. HISTORY
OF BIOMETRICS
Idea of
biometric was introduced hundreds, even thousands of years ago.In an cave
estimated to be at least 31,000 years old,-painting representing the use
of signature is found. In early as 500 B.C. – business transactions
are recorded in clay tablets that include fingerprints.”Chinese parents also
used fingerprints and footprints to differentiate children from one another.
But true biometric systems began with the emergence of computer systems.
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1858 – First systematic capture of hand
images for identification
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1870 – develops anthropometries to identify
individuals
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1892 – develops a classification system for
fingerprints
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1896 – fingerprint classification system
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1903 – NY State Prisons begin using
fingerprints
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1936 – Concept of using the iris pattern for
identification
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1960 – Face recognition becomes
semi-automated
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1960 – First model of acoustic speech
production is created
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1963 – Hughes research paper on fingerprint
automation is published
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1965 -Automated signature recognition
research begins
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1969 – FBI pushes to make fingerprint
recognition an automated process
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1998 - FBI launches COOlS (DNA forensic
database)
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2011 – Biometric identification used to
identify body of Osama bin Laden
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2013 – Apple includes fingerprint scanners
into consumer- targed Smartphones
The
idea of using patterns for personal identification was originally proposed in
1936 by ophthalmologist Frank Burch. By the 1980’s the idea had appeared in
James Bond films, but it still remained science fiction and conjecture. In
1987, two other ophthalmologists Aram Safir and Leonard Flom patented this idea
and in 1987 they asked John Daugman to try to create actual algorithms for this
iris recognition. These algorithms which Daugman patented in 1994 are the basis
for all current iris recognition systems and products. Daugman algorithms are owned by Iridian
technologies and the process is licensed to several other Companies who serve
as System integrators and developers of special platforms exploiting iris
recognition in recent years several products have been developed for acquiring
its images over a range of distances and in a variety of applications. One
active imaging system developed in 1996 by licensee Sensor deployed special
cameras in bank ATM to capture IRIS images at a distance of up to 1 meter. This
active imaging system was installed in cash machines both by NCR Corps and by
Diebold Corp in successful public trials in several countries during I997 to
1999. A new and smaller imaging device is the low cost “Panasonic Authenticam”
digital camera for handheld, desktop, e-commerce and other information security
applications. Ticket less air travel, check-in and security procedures based on
iris recognition kiosks in airports have been developed by eye ticket.
Companies in several, countries are now using Daughman’s algorithms in a
variety of products.
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