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	Iris scan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An iris scan is one of the most currently used methods of biometric authentication.
		An iris scan can be performed from several inches to several feet away, so there is no need to undergo invasive biometric procedures.
		While iris scans are said to be more accurate than most genetic fingerprinting, the golden standard of dermatoglyphic fingerprinting, established in the early 1820s by the Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně has yet to be matched.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iris_scan (361 words)

	Iris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Iris (mythology), a messenger of the gods in Greek mythology, identified with the rainbow
		Iris (anatomy), the sphincter around the pupil of the eye, named for the colors in human and animal eyes
		Hurricane Iris and Typhoon Iris, tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and the Western Pacific.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iris (411 words)

	Iris Recognition and Biometric Authentication (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Like a snowflake, the iris - the externally visible colored ring around the pupil - of every human eye is absolutely unique, exhibiting a distinctive pattern that forms randomly in utero in a process called chaotic morphogenesis.
		Iris recognition is the only biometric authentication technology designed to work in the 1-n or exhaustive search mode.
		Iris recognition involves nothing more than taking a digital picture of the iris (from moving video), and recreating an encrypted digital template of that pattern.
	www.lgiris.com /iris (795 words)

	NDM Article - Biometrics Systems Help Strengthen Border Security in Persian Gulf Nation
		Iris recognition is hailed as of the most accurate techniques of biometrics, in part because the human iris does not change from birth.
		The iris is the visible, colored ring that surrounds the pupil, a muscular structure that controls the amount of light entering the eye.
		In the case of the UAE, the information obtained from the iris scan is sent to the main database located at the police headquarters in Abu Dhabi.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2005/jun/biometrics_systems.htm (1265 words)

	Sheriff To Use Iris Scan System - from TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The sheriff's office bought two mobile scanning units for $25,000: one to stay at the sheriff's operations center in Ybor City and the other to be shared by the four district offices.
		Iris scanning won't replace fingerprinting or DNA matching, Brown said, but the speed and accuracy of the technology will make law enforcement agencies more effective.
		Iris scanning is 12 times more accurate than fingerprinting, and a match can be found in about five seconds.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGBRSEKZCBE.html (424 words)

	Science News: Iris Scan- Eye on Security
		Iris scanning takes advantage of random variations in the visible features the iris, the colored part of the eye.
		The iris consists largely of a system of muscle that expand and contract the pupil in response to changing lighting conditions.
		The structure of the iris develops in the embryo, assuming its lifelong character by the seventh or eighth month.
	www.accessexcellence.org /WN/SU/SU102001/irisscan.html (809 words)

	Police turn to scan of iris to track kids
		The Richland County Sheriff's Department is one of the first in the nation to join the database, which stores a digital image of a person's unique iris, the colored part of the eye around the pupil.
		Children stand about a foot away from a camera that takes a picture of the iris, which stretches in the first six months after birth and leaves marks.
		It takes about 15 seconds for the iris to be photographed and about nine seconds to search the database for a match.
	www.infowars.com /articles/bb/iris_scan_police_use_to_track_kids.htm (289 words)

	Scanning
		If you are photographer and have film you want to print as Iris prints or if you are a painter and have high quality film of the original (if you don't think your film is high quality enough, see Digital Capture), we drum scan the film to create a digital file for Iris printing.
		If you are not interested in making Iris prints but want to have the better quality scanned files for your own desktop printers, we can also scan your film for that purpose at a lower price.
		For printing on consumer level printers, the scanned files don't have to be as large as the ones for Iris printing since the size of output will be smaller.
	www.ejarts.com /scan.html (246 words)

	Frankfurt airport introduces iris scan for border control \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		To qualify, passengers would need background checks by German border police, a machine-readable passport, be citizens of the European Union or Switzerland, register at the airport and have an iris scan on file.
		The test is part of efforts in many countries, especially the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, to extend the use of biometric technology — using fingerprint, eye or facial recognition scans — to track travelers and immigrants, while also cutting down on time spent in line.
		"Iris recognition is at this time the most secure biometric," Interior Minister Otto Schily, Germany's top security official said in launching the test last week.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/0204/17irisscan.html (306 words)

	Iris-Scan Authentication Cuts Fraud in Connecticut Vehicle Emissions Testing - June 2005
		Test subjects were "enrolled" onto the iris scan system by sitting before a small, special purpose digital camera and waiting a few seconds for the associated computer and software to characterize and memorize the unique patterns within the detail of one of their irises.
		The result is a unique binary iris code that is stored during enrollment of the user on the system and later used to compare when the user comes back to gain access.
		The particular iris scan system chosen by Applus+ Technologies for the Connecticut vehicle inspection program operates in conjunction with an ordinary Pentium PC computer and is based on a special purpose video camera operating under ordinary room lighting conditions.
	www.govtech.net /magazine/story.php?id=94298 (2276 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: The Eyes Have It: Body Scans at the ATM
		Bank United's use of iris scanning, which is harmless to the eye, represents the first time a large private company has attempted to use biometrics as a consumer tool.
		Whether it's iris scanning, fingerprints, voice prints, hand geometry, face geometry or signature authentication, biometrics are rapidly becoming a cheaper, easier and more secure way to conduct business.
		IriScan, the Marlton, N.J., firm that patented Bank United's iris technology, uses 266 different measurable characteristics of a person's iris, a membrane that has muscles with distinctive ridges, freckles and stretch marks that are formed in childhood and never change.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/daily/june99/scans21.htm (1688 words)

	ABC News: Eye Scan Technology Comes to Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Phil Meara is superintendent of the New Jersey school district that is piloting the iris scan project.
		An iris scan is said to be more accurate than a fingerprint because it records 240 unique details — far more than the seven to 24 details that are analyzed in fingerprints.
		The odds of being misidentified by an iris scan are about one in 1.2 million and just one in 1.44 trillion if you scan both eyes.
	abcnews.go.com /GMA/story?id=1539275 (689 words)

	Iris Scan
		Panasonic Iris Readers offer you the most accurate and precise personal identification technology in the biometrics field.
		Using the Panasonic Iris Reader requires no physical contact at all; users stand 12 to 15 inches away from the camera.
		Panasonic Iris Readers have been deployed in all types of systems, large and small, including highly secured border crossings and registered traveler programs.
	www.datamaticsinc.com /inside/devices/data/hardware/iris_scan.aspx (274 words)

	New study highlights iris scan shortcomings
		Biometric iris scans may be ineffective for up to one million people in the United Kingdom who are blind or have visual impairments such as cataracts, according to a report from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
		The 250,000 people a year who receive cataract surgery in the U.K. may experience rejection from an iris scan system after the surgery, and may need to re-enroll their irises in the system, the report said.
		Finally, iris scans, as well as fingerprint scans and other biometrics, can be “spoofed” with forgeries and counterfeit information, the report said.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/1_1/daily_news/25888-1.html (469 words)

	John Daugman's webpage, Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge UK.
		Daugman J (2003) "The importance of being random: Statistical principles of iris recognition."
		Detailed colour iris image, another, and collage of several.
		Iris performance is the isolated pink diamond in the lower left corner of these graphs.)
	www.cl.cam.ac.uk /users/jgd1000 (383 words)

	Amsterdam Schiphol Launches "Iris Scan" Trial
		Planned long before the September 11 terrorist attacks slowed passage through airports, the iris scan is now being promoted as a high-tech tool to foil passport fraud.
		After a 15-minute registration when the iris data is entered onto the chip of a personal ID card, a passenger can pass through passport control by looking into the scanner for a second or two.
		Schiphol Group, the government company that owns the airport, said the iris scan was the fastest and safest form of biometrics recognition, and is confident it will win approval.
	www.flyertalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=62793 (339 words)

	CBC News:Safety in the blink of an eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Iris recognition technology was pioneered in the mid-'90s.
		The technology examines the unique patterns of the iris, the coloured ring around the pupil of the eye.
		The International Airline Pilots Association has lobbied for iris scans of airport employees saying there are too many gaps in security at Canadian airports.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/09/24/Consumers/irisscans_020924 (436 words)

	Biometrics, Iris Scan
		The eye needs a certain degree of lighting to allow the camera to capture the iris and unusual lighting might affect the ability of the camera to acquire its subject.
		In conclusion, as with anything you should always have a back up plan in place in case it becomes inoperable which could be difficult if employees are using this for access and didn't bring along a company id or other appropriate identification.
		It may be easier to use an iris-scan on a person with a disability or an elderly person that might have problems signing their names.
	www.personal.psu.edu /staff/t/r/trw1/emerging_tech/iris.htm (388 words)

	Keeping an Eye on Secure Access: Iridian Iris Scan
		Our common static biometrics are found with fingerprints, hand geometry, facial recognition, iris scan, etc. Voice recognition, typing style, signature analysis and the like are usually called dynamic biometrics.
		Eye scans, retina specifically, are usually considered an intrusive form of biometric authentication.
		Iris scans, however, allow for eyes to be scanned without ever touching the eye.
	www.esecurityplanet.com /prodser/article.php/3340251 (589 words)

	The Populist Party - Democracy in America - Iris Scan for JFK Passengers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The airport will be home to a new pilot program that uses high-tech eye scans to speed pre-registered passengers through security and customs checkpoints.
		With the success of the fingerprinting program at the borders - known as US-VISIT - and now the launch of the iris scanning, Ridge is urging the United States to rely more heavily on biometrics rather than paper documents to assure a person's identity.
		Ridge assured personal-privacy hawks that the fingerprints and iris records will be tightly guarded - a designated homeland security official will be assigned to make sure the information doesn't fall into the wrong hands, he said.
	www.populistamerica.com /iris_scan_for_jfk_passengers (587 words)

	NEWS (1530-HTML) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		And companies involved in the iris biometric market were quick to dismiss our ideas on false pretensions of superiority (their "industrial-strength" approaches, hard-to-beat mathematical foundations, solidity of "smart design" and all that).
		Such was the "intelligence" embedded in the iris biometric device that a simple medium-to-high resolution iris picture, with a hole in it to fool the pupil detector was enough to grant access to high security commercial systems for a whole team!
		The iris is and shall remain a PURE "object of interest".
	www.iris-ward.com /TEMP/02-cadre.html (7296 words)

	EXN.ca \| Technology
		As for accuracy, the companies claim that making an iris match is of greater accuracy than that obtained by DNA testing.
		But, there is another, less publicly touted benefit to banks of the iris scan technology.
		The choice of what a bank does with the iris scan technology is up to the bank, Jones said.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1999/12/09/03.asp (525 words)

	SECURIPORT
		Iris-scan technology: iris recognition focuses on imperfections in the color and texture of the individual human iris.
		Facial-scan technology: emphasizes those sections of the face that are less susceptible to alteration, including the upper outlines of the eye sockets, the areas surrounding the cheekbones, and the sides of the mouth.
		One-to-many comparison capabilities make the technology superior to other technologies; hand-recognition, for example, which is excellent to compare with the stored image of the individual, is ineffective to identify the person from a database of stored images.
	www.securiport.com /technology.asp (865 words)

	Iris Scans' Leader Looks Secure
		Now that iris scans are showing such promise, many venture-capital firms view Iridian as an attractive investment or acquisition prospect.
		Iris recognition -- widely considered to be the most accurate method of quick biometric identification -- hasn't taken off due to governments and large corporations hesitating to rely on a single vendor, says Prianka Chopra, an analyst with Frost and Sullivan.
		Iris recognition is also more sanitary, since people don't have to touch a scanner.
	businessweek.com /technology/content/jul2005/tc2005075_4115_tc119.htm (1531 words)

	International Biometric Group - Iris Recognition Technology
		The most comprehensive and up-to-date information on iris recognition technology — the market, technology and applications — can be found in IBG's authoritative report on the "State of Iris Recognition Technology."
		Further information on iris recognition technology can also be found in IBG’s Biometrics Market and Industry Report 2006-2010, the industry's most comprehensive, extensive and authoritative analysis of biometric technologies, applications, and global markets.
		Iris recognition technology is evaluated in IBG's Comparative Biometric Testing, Rounds Three, Four and Five.
	www.biometricgroup.com /reports/public/reports_iris-scan.html (165 words)

	Iris scan key to preventing false ID? - Today, Weekend Edition - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In the recent Tom Cruise thriller, “Minority Report,” iris recognition is the standard method of personal identification.
		That is critical, because many of the 9/11 hijackers used phony documents to move around the country in the months before that fateful morning.
		Lawmakers argue that if iris recognition is available and can make us safer, it should be used in creating the most basic form of ID there is: the driver's license.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5957052 (778 words)

	License dispute hits TSA program
		EDS is using the iris scan technology at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Boston Logan International Airport.
		LG obtained a license for the iris scan technology from Iridian’s predecessor, IriScan Inc. in 1997.
		LG’s core iris scan technology is licensed from Iridian, whose IrisAccess system is a registered trademark in Korea, Brazil, the Unites States and the European Union.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/19_14/federal/24696-1.html (973 words)

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