Friday, January 22, 2010

The iris of the beholder

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104101628.htm

Recent scientific innovation have shown that the eyes reveal a persons true identidy. A new report by computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) demonstrates that iris recognition algorithms can maintain their accuracy and interoperability with compact images, affirming their potential for large-scale identity management applications such as the federal Personal Identity Verification program, cyber security and counterterrorism. The iris indetification is quickly becoming the new method of IDing people and will most likely take over the fingerprint ID system as it is easier to fake finger prints than Iris ID.

7 comments:

Max said...

The topic was interesting and well presented, giving specific organizations that are currently working to bring Iris identification to new heights.

Although it was well written, i feel it lacked a specific reason why it was better than fingerprint ID, and if this Iris ID is fool proof or if it has its disadvantages.

I learned that this method is going to be used for counterterrorism purposes.

Sam Adrian said...

Jesse’s article was very interesting, I liked the overall topic of the article and how it related to the human eye as means of identification. I also liked the fact that Jesse gave an example of where and how this technique was used at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology.) finally, I thought the idea that this type of identification could be used at a larger scale such as the federal Personal Identity Verification program. However, I thought that Jesse could have given an example of a case or instant when this method was used in forensic science. I also thought that the article lacked any proof or information that would have shown how this system of identification would overtake fingerprint ID. Overall, from this solid article, I learned that this new method of human eye identification is a very accurate and effective system.

Brogan said...

Three Things I liked:
I liked how this article used the human eye as a form of identification. I also liked how the article described how the iris method is now becoming the lead choice in identifying for iding people. The last thing I liked about this article was how it compared the iris identification to that of finger printing.

Two things I didnt like:
After reading this article I dont like how there was no specific points in the article where it showed then Iris method being used in any case. I aslo didn't like how they made an assumption about how the Iris method will soon be passing the fingger print as the top means of identification without giving facts to support it.

1 thing I learned:
I learned that this method will be used the federal personal identity verification program, with almost pin point accuracy.

Anthony D. said...

I thought that this topic was very interesting and cool. When I see in the movies how high level security areas use iris identification I think that it is really smart and hard to trick. Fingerprint scanners can be faked with a fake fingerprint; however, a iris scan is impossible to fake unless someone has the persons eyeball. Learning about this topic is really cool and something that I would like to research in more depth. Two things that I did not like about this article were that it was short and it lacked detail. If it wasn't for the length of this review I would consider it perfect. I learned about the government departments which use iris identification and that it is the identification process of the future.

Travis said...

One thing i liked is how the human eye was used as a form of identification. Another thing i liked was how a fingerprint scan can be faked but an iris scan can't. Finally I liked how this type of identification could be used on a larger scale with as a federal personal identification program. However, i think that there should have been an example of a time where this method was used for forensics. Also i feel that there was no real reason why iris scanning is so much better then fingerprint scanning. From this i learned that iris scanning is a very accurate method of identification.

gabby wall said...
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gabby wall said...

Three Things I liked:
I personally liked how this article used the human eye as a form of identification, i felt the article was well presented. I also liked how the article compared the iris identification to that of finger printing. Finally I liked how the iris method is now becoming the lead choice in forensic identification.

Two things I didnt like:
After reading this article didn't really enjoy how they made an assumption about how the Iris method will soon be passing the fingger print as the top means of identification without giving facts to support it.I also did notlike how there was no specific points or examples of the method being used.

1 thing I learned:
One thing I learned was that the method described in the article will be eventually be used by the federal personal identity verification program.