Aadhar touchless biometric capture system: A thing of future to be UIDAI’s latest addition
TCN Service/New Delhi
In the coming days when you have to get Aadhar authentication done via the biometric capture system, there won’t be any need to place your finger on the biometric device.
Moreover, the proposed touchless biometric capture system will give you freedom to use it anytime, anywhere.
For this purpose, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIT Bombay to design a touchless biometric capture system.
“UIDAI and IIT Bombay will carry out joint research to build a mobile capture system for fingerprints along with liveness model integrated with the capture system,” a spokesperson of the Indian government said.
“The touchless biometric capture system, once developed and operational, will allow fingerprint authentication from home alike face authentication.
The new system is expected to capture multiple fingerprints at one go and aid authentication success rate further. The new system once in place will be an addition to the existing facilities available in the Aadhaar ecosystem.
Such a system will use an intelligent combination of signal/image processing and machine learning/deep learning with a common mobile phone available to most citizens with a good user experience. This will be a step forward in making Universal authenticator a reality,” he added.
The UIDAI and IIT Bombay collaboration is being done through National Centre of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security (NCETIS) which is a joint initiative by IIT Bombay and the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
The venture is under flagship Digital India Programme to develop indigenous technology solutions for Internal Security forces in broad areas of Electronic System Design and Manufacturing.
