Advances in capturing child fingerprints. Akash Ghai (NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.) Yoshinori Koda (NEC Corporation)

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1 Advances in capturing child fingerprints Akash Ghai (NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.) Yoshinori Koda (NEC Corporation)

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3 NEC Introduction NEC, Technologies leader for +110 Years $26 billion in revenues Almost 100,000 employees worldwide 217 consolidated subsidiaries 74,000 Patents Worldwide (many in biometrics) NEC Technologies India, Technology Professionals in India Started in 2005 as a joint venture between NEC Corporation and HCL Technologies (NEC HCL System Technologies Ltd). Since 2013 NEC Technologies India is a fully owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. NEC Biometrics Excellence Center (NBEC): NBEC was launched with the vision to be a Global Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the biometrics domain. NBEC was started in March 2010 as part of NEC India Pvt. Ltd. In October 2014, NBEC became part of NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. NBEC provides world-class engineering skills and competency catering to NEC's global identification solutions and integrated security solutions business, including its renowned automated fingerprint identification solutions and face recognition solutions. NBEC has partnered most NEC overseas units NEC Super Tower Japan

4 Advances in capturing child fingerprints

5 Why is Child Fingerprint Identification requested? Preventing Newborn Baby Swaps Identifying Missing Children Avoiding Child Trafficking Tracking Vaccination Schedule/History National ID Program Source: 5 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

6 Example Use case: Child Medical history linked to Aadhaar Aadhaar more beneficial to society Additional Revenue models Better Management Efficient distribution of vaccines Reduced shortages Reduced costs UIDAI Government & Health Organisations Access to previous medication, reports Avoid misidentification Avoid duplication of medication Doctors Child & Parent Avoid miss/duplicate vaccination Avoid duplicate tests/medicines Reduced costs Better Health 6 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

7 Challenges in capture of child fingerprints Child is young to follow instructio ns No Standard Difficulty in getting a young child to be still Existing 1000ppi scanners are bulky/he avy Small area to capture Thin and soft skin Wet or moist fingers PID scanners support resolution up to 500ppi 7 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

8 High Resolution CMOS With SHF Glass 8 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

9 CMOS Capability / MTF Chart, 500 lines pair /cm MTF : Modulation Transfer Function 9 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

10 Captured Image taken by 1,270ppi CMOS+SHF Captured by ZAK-001 Resolution: 1,270ppi Method: CMOS+SHF Subject: Left Thumb taken from 10 months old Infant 10 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

11 Scattered Light Direct Reading (SLDR) Method 11 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

12 Scattered Light Direct Reading (SLDR) Method Irradiate inside of a finger Ridge portion Valley portion SHF CMOS Ir LED Ir LED Light with high intensity Light with low intensity Ridge portion Light from ridge portion directly reaches image sensor with high intensity. Valley portion Light from valley portion is diffused at the space and reaches image sensor at a low intensity. SLDR-Method is the most applicable way to capture the thin, slim and small fingerprint at the HW. SHF Glass area is also the core technology to enhance the information from finger more clear and delivers the information to CMOS without any information loss after its process. Thanks to the SLDR-Method, unit delivers high resolution images (1,270 ppi) that facilitate the recognition of ridges on thin and small fingers such as newborn infant. 12 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

13 Captured Image taken by 1,270ppi CMOS+SHF+SLDR Captured by ZAK-002 Resolution: 1,270ppi Method: CMOS+SHF+SLDR (Side LED only) Subject: Left Thumb taken from 1 month old newborn 13 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

14 Child Fingerprint Scanner ZAKURO Series 14 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

15 Latest Prototype ZAK-108 (=ZAK-008) ZAK-007 Power supply for Roof Style IrLED Rounded form ZAK-108(=ZAK-008) Taper shape 7.5mm 7.5mm 3mm ZAK-007 ZAK-008 ZAK-007 ZAK NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

16 Captured Image taken by ZAKURO scanner Captured by ZAK-108 Resolution: 1,270ppi Method: CMOS+SHF+SLDR (Side LED only) Subject: Right Thumb taken from 6 hours old newborn 16 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

17 Resolution Comparison 500ppi 1,270ppi Captured by 500ppi sensor (Left) and ZAK-108 (Right) Resolution: 500ppi / 1,270ppi Method: Optical / CMOS+SHF+SLDR Subject: Captured from 7 month old infant 17 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

18 Conclusion and Next Step With further research and evaluation, the project team is confident that this new method provides a stable and reliable way to capture and match child prints for identification purposes. The use of this technology has many applications that can be a benefit to society that include the maintenance of accurate health and immunization records, immigration processing and more accurate data on population and birth rates. Hardware Innovation for additional capability. Compatibility consideration for AFIS backend. POC for long term tracking (a few years, at least). Acceptance for free approach to capture the child print. (Free from product standardization for POC Prototype). 18 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

19 References Advances in Capturing Child Fingerprints: A High Resolution CMOS Image Sensor with SLDR Method (Yoshinori Koda, Teruyuki Higuchi and Anil K. Jain ): rint/koda_childfingerprinthighressldr.pdf 19 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

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21 Corporate Overview

22 NEC Introduction Technology leader for 110+ years $26 billion in revenues Almost 100,000 employees worldwide Ranked #444 in Fortune's "Global consolidated subsidiaries 74,000 Patents Worldwide (many in biometrics) Founder of NEC Kunihiko Iwadare Current President of NEC Takashi Niino NEC Super Tower Japan NEC Group Vision 2017 To be a leading global company leveraging the power of innovation to realize an information society friendly to humans and the earth 22 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

23 NEC Technologies India Private Limited (NTIL) Started in 2005 as a joint venture between NEC Corporation and HCL Technologies (NEC HCL System Technologies Ltd). Since 2013 NEC Technologies India is a fully owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation. Noida, Bangalore, Kanagawa, Irving, Singapore Operations of NTI Product Engineering and R&D, Industry Solutions, Global Business Expansion Services, Japanese Communication Coordination Centre Anil Gupta CEO & MD NTI s Mission Strengthen NEC's global business by delivering innovative products, solutions and services, leveraging NEC's technologies and solutions combined with our offshore development capability and domain expertise 23 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

24 About NBEC NEC Biometrics Excellence Center (NBEC) NBEC was launched with the vision to be a Global Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the biometrics domain. NBEC was started in March 2010 as part of NEC India Pvt. Ltd. In October 2014, NBEC became part of NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. NBEC spans the application spectrum for global biometrics projects NBEC has partnered most NEC overseas units such as NEC Corporation, NEC America,NEC Argentina on global biometrics projects. The range of products developed, enhanced, or supported by NBEC includes Livescan Capture enhancements, SDKs, new generation GUIs, middleware solutions managing millions of transactions each day, backend matchers, and the next generation of NEC biometric applications. NEC's biometrics solutions are utilized by more than 200 applications in over 30 countries, including law enforcement, civil identification and national NBEC election Global systems. Footprint Biometrics Projects Key partners that NBEC collaborates with include NEC Corporation, NEC America, UIDAI. Quality Focus: NBEC secured CMMI Level-3 Certification on 15th March, 2013 Started the journey for CMMI Level-5 Certification in 2015 Key Strengths NBEC provides world-class engineering skills and competency catering to NEC's global identification solutions and integrated security solutions business, including its renowned automated fingerprint identification solutions and face recognition solutions. NBEC is involved in developing flexible, open, service oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions for extremely accurate systems in technology environments ranging from highlyscalable server solutions to large-scale highly-available distributed computing models. 24 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015

25 NBEC: Key Engagements Key Engagements: UIDAI Aadhaar NEC s knowledge and technical consultancy was critical since the database size envisaged was 1+ billion records! At present, the current solution can o Enrol 1.2 million records each day! o Perform 500,000 searches each day! o Support deployment on 600+ servers! Key Engagements: OpenStack Bangalore team works as an extension to Noida team. Few modules such as HEAT and Ironic are being executed at Bangalore. Key Engagements: NEC America (NECAM) ODC NBEC contributes to NEC America (NECAM) biometric solutions in the areas of product development, testing, system engineering, documentation. SmartID: Mobile ID application on Android and ios. It supports multimodal, multi-factor authentication. Currently undergoing pilots across multiple US counties. NeoFace Reveal & Assure: Responsive web application providing advanced image enhancements, versatility using HTML5 capabilities. NeoFace Links: Solution for finding unique face in large volumes of evidence. Neo EVA (Enterprise Video Analytics): Scalable video surveillance application with the capability to process both online and offline video. Key Engagements: Software Factory India The Software Factory Service (SWF) is used mainly by Japan-led projects. SWF-India supports software development with overseas development team participation. The services provided include (English) Support Desks, Implementation Guides & User Guides along with Training Video Materials. 25 NEC Technologies India Private Limited 2015