Digimarc Identity Validation Suite - Biometric Identification Solutions

Eliminating duplicate driver licences, identity theft and identity fraud within the issuance process.

Digimarc Identity Validation Suite (IDVS) Biometric Identification is an easy-to-use, production-proven modular solution to eliminate duplicate driver licences, identity theft and identity fraud within the driver licence/identification (DL/ID) issuance process.

Highly tuned investigative and fraud-filtering features such as web-based access, automated enrollment, batch identification, candidate matching galleries, and one-to-many side-by-side image comparisons enable investigators to quickly and easily process multiple identity fraud cases.

By providing jurisdictions with the only solution capable of discovering duplicate driver licences within an existing DL/ID database, Biometric Identification fosters the goal of "One Driver; One Licence."

Delivering "One Driver; One Licence"

• A production-proven solution for secure ID agencies issuing millions of secure ID documents each year.
• Secure, reliable identification through industry best-of-breed technology
• Reduce cost and effort with a modular, scaleable and configurable solution
• Fast and easy to learn and use
• Stop identity fraud while protecting citizen rights and privacy.
• Catch identity thieves and fraudsters in hours instead of months
• Easily produce evidence for prosecution.
• Proven fraud reduction - hundreds of duplicate secure IDs prevented or discovered annually.
• Proven performance - four government agencies currently using IDVS BI check more than 18,000 images each night (4.5 million annually) against a combined DL database in excess of 36 million images.

A production-proven solution

Delivering more than 60 million drivers licences annually, Digimarc has vast experience in the DL/ID issuance industry. Biometric Identification systems has been successfully deployed in several government agencies with demanding technical and operational requirements and has been shown to stop hundreds of attempted identity fraud cases annually in each of those states.

Reliable Identification

Biometric Identification provides the only solution capable of detecting duplicate licences within an existing DL/ID image database. Through the automated enrollment feature applicant images are converted to an algorithmic template, which is then included in a batch comparison against the entire database of DL/ID image templates.

Using the investigator workstation interface feature, investigators can compare any image tagged as a potential fraud using a variety of industry best-of-breed functions, including: three match list views, candidate matching galleries, side-by-side enlargement, image retrieval and image upload. To further ensure security and the confidentially of personal data, no investigation or application data is cached locally.

A modular easy-to-use system with proven scalability

Using modular system architecture and industry best-of-breed biometric algorithms, Biometric Identification can be scaled to enroll tens of millions of images in a single installation, easily providing highly tuned investigative and fraud-filtering devices to handle the throughput required by even the largest jurisdictions.

The system enables investigators to quickly uncover individuals attempting to create duplicate identities within a secure ID database and is easy for staff to learn and operate.

To optimize fraud reduction even further, Biometric Identification is designed to integrate with other IDVS solutions such as Document Authentication and Applicant Data Verification to provide a complete multi-factor solution to eliminate duplicate driver licences and identify potential identity theft and fraud cases within the DL/ID issuance process.

Digimarc IDVS Biometric Identification Features & Benefits

Automated enrollment

• New images are automatically flagged for inclusion in the next batch search -- ensuring the timeliness of checking new enrollees

Batch identifications

• Results are results ready for investigators by the start of business the next day
• The high performance algorithms are production proven and scalable to handle the throughput required by the largest jurisdictions

Variable enrollment schedules

• Processing schedules are flexible and controlled by the jurisdiction

Investigator workstation

• Browser based and easily navigated using a few mouse clicks
• No investigation or application data is cached locally to assure confidentiality of customer personal data or sensitive investigation details

Three match list views

• The investigator workstation provides three views supporting production checks, fraud investigations and collaboration across the team

Candidate matching galleries

• When a match is selected, a gallery of the probe image and all matching images is provided enabling rapid evaluation of potential fraud by investigators

Side-by-side enlargement

• The probe image and selected potential match candidate images can be enlarged and displayed side by side for detailed comparison

Image retrieval and special investigations

• Investigators can retrieve images from the enrolled database to initiate ad-hoc identification searches based on clues and/or external evidence

Image upload

• This function provides investigators with the capability to upload external images for identification searches against the database of images