Department of Defense awards contract to International Biometric Group and Michigan State University to develop multimodal biometric systems.(Brief Article)

Federal Computer Market Report, November, 2004

International Biometric Group, LLC (IBG) and Michigan State University were recently awarded a six-month contract by the Department of Defense through the United States Army Research Office's highly competitive STTR Program. The research will help in developing cutting-edge systems that fuse multiple biometric modalities such as iris, face, and fingerprint technologies in operational scenarios.

Accurate identification and verification methods have come under increasing scrutiny in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the release of the 9/11 Commission Report. This has resulted in substantial interest in biometric recognition systems that are being increasingly deployed in a variety of DoD, government and civilian applications; US VISIT is one such very large...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.