UIDAI and IIT Bombay to Work on Touchless Biometric Capture System

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has partnered with Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) to create a touchless biometric capture system that can be easily used by people anywhere, and anytime irrespective of their location. 

This collaboration between UIDAI and IIT Bombay's National Centre of Excellence in Technology for Internal Security (NCETIS) will focus on research and development for a system for UIDAI. The NCETIS is a joint initiative between IIT Bombay and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), aimed at developing indigenous technology solutions for internal security forces in electronic system design and manufacturing.

This collaboration involves joint research between UIDAI and IIT Bombay to develop a mobile capture system for fingerprints with an integrated liveness model. The touchless biometric capture system will allow for fingerprint authentication from home, similar to face authentication. It is expected to capture multiple fingerprints simultaneously, thus increasing the authentication success rate. 

This new system will be an additional facility in the Aadhaar ecosystem. To achieve this, an intelligent combination of signal or image processing and machine learning and deep learning will be used to provide a good user experience for citizens with a common mobile phone. This, the organisations claim, marks a significant step towards making the Universal authenticator a reality.