Innovatrics Boosts Passive Liveness Detection Accuracy

Biometric solutions provider Innovatrics has announced a significant improvement in the accuracy of its passive liveness detection technology, which is increasingly essential for high-security remote onboarding processes.

The updated algorithm increases accuracy by 30 percent, reducing the equal error rate (EER) from 1.3 percent to 0.9 percent. The enhancement ensures the system is more robust against fraud attempts, particularly those involving spoofing face-matching algorithms with photos.

Passive liveness detection requires only a selfie to verify a person’s identity, without the need for additional actions on the end user’s part. Innovatrics continues to advance in this area to counter the evolving tactics of fraudsters who use AI to exploit security vulnerabilities.

“We are seeing new avenues of attack almost every week and we have to make sure we’re able to detect them,” said Viktor Bielko, DOT Product Manager at Innovatrics.

This new follows an announcement last month that Innovatrics achieved top rankings in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) MINEX III fingerprint testing program, where the company’s template generator showed superior performance in the “pooled 2 fingers” and “native 1 finger” categories, while its template matcher also ranked highly for accuracy and interoperability.

MINEX III evaluates fingerprint template generators and matchers for compliance with the INCITS 378 standard, which supports the U.S. Government’s Personal Identity Verification (PIV) program. Innovatrics’ algorithms demonstrated exceptional ability in generating and matching fingerprint templates, enhancing accuracy and reliability in biometric systems. In these categories, the firm outperformed competitors like Neurotechnology, IDEMIA, and Thales.

Innovatrics offers various liveness detection methods tailored to different security needs, including passive liveness, active liveness, and its MagnifEye liveness solution. Clients can combine these methods for enhanced security, using passive liveness for most cases and other methods for higher scrutiny when needed.

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June 4, 2024 – by Ali Nassar-Smith