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In what mode is iris recognition designed to be used?
In what mode is iris recognition designed to be used?
Identification mode ('one-to-many' exhaustive search)
What is the approximate number of iris comparisons performed daily in the system deployed in the United Arab Emirates?
What is the approximate number of iris comparisons performed daily in the system deployed in the United Arab Emirates?
12 billion
How many persons worldwide have been enrolled in iris recognition systems using the author's algorithms?
How many persons worldwide have been enrolled in iris recognition systems using the author's algorithms?
50 million
What is the speed of iris comparisons per second per search engine in the system?
What is the speed of iris comparisons per second per search engine in the system?
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How many arriving travelers have used the iris recognition system in the United Arab Emirates?
How many arriving travelers have used the iris recognition system in the United Arab Emirates?
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What is the number of air, land, and sea-ports of entry into the United Arab Emirates linked by the iris recognition system?
What is the number of air, land, and sea-ports of entry into the United Arab Emirates linked by the iris recognition system?
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Study Notes
Development of Iris Recognition
- Iris recognition has developed rapidly over the past 15 years from its first live demonstration and patent to a mainstream field of biometric development.
- There are a large number of active researchers in both academia and industry contributing to its development.
Iris Recognition Systems
- Over 50 million people worldwide have been enrolled in iris recognition systems that use the author's algorithms.
- Other systems are also being developed, demonstrated, and tested in government-sponsored competitions with good results.
Iris Recognition Mode
- Iris recognition is designed for use in identification mode, involving a "one-to-many" exhaustive search, where a user is not asked to claim or assert an identity.
- This is different from simple verification, which is a "one-to-one" test of a claimed identity.
Deployment and Statistics
- In the United Arab Emirates, a system links all 27 air, land, and sea-ports of entry, comparing the irises of arriving travelers to a central database.
- This system has performed over 5 trillion (5 × 10^12) iris comparisons since 2001.
- About 10 million arriving travelers have used this system, with 12 billion iris comparisons now being performed daily at a speed of about 1 million comparisons per second per search engine.
- Data from 200 billion iris comparisons will be plotted in this chapter.
UK's Project IRIS
- The UK has launched Project IRIS (Iris Recognition Immigration System), which allows travelers to enter the UK from abroad without passport presentation or assertion of identity.
- Travelers can simply look at an iris camera at an automatic gate, and if they are recognized, their border-control formalities are finished and the gate opens.
- About 200,000 travelers to the UK have benefited from this convenience in recent months.
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Iris recognition has rapidly developed over 15 years, from its first live demo to a mainstream biometric field. Millions of people have been enrolled in iris recognition systems using the author's algorithms. Other systems are also being developed and tested with good results.
