ICAO FACE SDK - Biometric Face & Fingerprint SDK (API)

Griaule ICAO Face SDK is an image processing Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows automatic identification systems handle facial images following international standards.

Digital facial images are widely used for systems like e-passport. The most common problem when dealing with photos is the heterogeneous quality due to the size, face orientation, color, contrast and other variables.

Griaule ICAO Face SDK processes a digital facial image to improve its quality conforming ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) requirements. ICAO is the leading organization on the effort to create standards for the emerging e-passport technology. It includes a standard for digital image quality for facial images, defining requirements for photographic and digital characteristics.

Features:

Automated characteristics detection:
Automated detection of eyes and mouth locations and option for manual adjustment
Does not matter where you took the picture:
Support for facial images with heterogeneous background
Meets ICAO Full Frontal Image requirements (ISO/IEC FCD 19794-5)
Frontal rotation of the face is less than 5º (angle between the eyes)
Same pixel aspect ratio at horizontal and vertical dimensions
Nose and mouth are at the horizontal center of the image
The distance from the bottom edge of the image to the imaginary line passing through the center of the eyes is between 50% - 70% of the height of the image
The minimum image width conforms to the image width by head width ratio of 7:5. The head width is defined as the distance between the left and right ears
The distance between the base of the chin and the crown is less than 80% of the total height of the image
Support for ICAO Token Image (ISO/IEC FCD 19794-5)
Standard facial measures ratios and goals. Griaule ICAO Face SDK returns information about ratio values and matched/unmatched goals
Some ratios are listed below. They are also matched against their own ICAO standard goal:
1. Angle of Eyes Inclination
2. Eyes Height Ratio (eyes height/photo height)
3. Width Face Ratio (face width/photo width)
4. Height Face Ratio (face height/photo height)
5. Aspect Ratio (photo width/photo height)
Does not matter where you took the picture:
Support for facial images with heterogeneous background
More control of your photos:
With the Full Frontal white background filled image creation functionality, you can have the processed photo with the dimensions you need. One common reason for unsuccessful creation of Full Frontal Image is that estimated rectangular ICAO region unbound the source image limits. Now, new white pixels are added to fill the background region to increase the width/height of the image in order to meet the right dimensions of the ICAO image.
Independence of camera:
The software needs only the face image to be used
Easy and intuitive:
Simple interface available as an ActiveX (COM) and DLL
Easy to learn:
With the several samples delivered with the ICAO Face SDK, everything needed to develop in the supported languages is showed as example! The samples are provided in several languages, along with their source code
Use your preferred programming language:
The ICAO Face SDK supports multiple programming languages including Java, Delphi, Visual Basic, C++, .NET, FoxPro and many others
Work with .NET and Java made even easier:
Besides the ActiveX and .DLL components, now it's available components for Java and .NET programming languages
Ph.D. researchers team:
Our technology is on an ever-improving trend, due to our researchers, all of them with an outstanding knowledge and publications on image processing, computer vision and other related issues.

Supported Programming Languages

Successful used with:
C#.net, Java / J2EE / JSP, C++, C++.net, Delphi, VB6, VB.NET, Foxpro 8, Foxpro 9, MS Access, Asp
Should work with:
Matlab, Labview, PowerBuilder, Visual Lisp, dBase, Remedy, Assembly, Clipper(Newer Versions), D, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Python.NET, Ruby, Smalltalk, VBScript

Supported Operating Systems

Windows Vista
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or later recommended)

Hardware Requirements

200 MHz or higher Pentium-class Processor and 64Mb of RAM.

WHATS NEW

Does not matter where you took the picture:
Support for facial images with heterogeneous background
Work with .NET and Java made even easier:
Besides the ActiveX and .DLL components, now it's available components for Java and .NET programming languages
Recognizes the importance of standards:
Support for ICAO Token Image (ISO/IEC FCD 19794-5)
More info about ICAO images:
Full Frontal Image requirements include several standard facial measures ratios and goals. Griaule ICAO returns information about ratio values and matched/unmatched goals.
Some ratios are listed below. They are also matched against their own ICAO standard goal:
1. Angle of Eyes Inclination
2. Eyes Height Ratio (eyes height/photo height)
3. Width Face Ratio (face width/photo width)
4. Height Face Ratio (face height/photo height)
5. Aspect Ratio (photo width/photo height)
Improved eyes and mouth detection methods:
The eyes and mouth detector algorithm has been improved with more accurate estimation of eyes center and more widely solution to eyes occlusion and face sloping problems
Facilitates exchanging:
Improved support to CBEFF (Common Biometric Exchange File Format). Now, functions allow inclusion of several facial images and flexible number of feature points (e.g. eyes and mouth coordinates). Now you can add as many facial images and as many feature points as you want to the exchange file
More control of your photos:
With the Full Frontal white background filled image creation functionality, you can have the processed photo with the dimensions you need. One common reason for unsuccessful creation of Full Frontal Image is that estimated rectangular ICAO region unbound the source image limits. Now, new white pixels are added to fill the background region to increase the width/height of the image in order to meet the right dimensions of the ICAO image

Griaule Face Recognition System - Biometric SDK

Meets ICAO Full Frontal Image requirements (ISO/IEC FCD 19794-5)

"We needed to develop a software for the travel sector. We chose Griaule software, because we believed that it was great and very easy to use product.
Griaule's product helped us in integrating the ICAO funcionality to our software , and we are very pleased with the results." -

Naresh Gupta, Creative Information Technology, Inc. (USA)

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