You might find facecerts interesting.
http://www.computer.org/proceedings/dcc/1896/18960435.pdf
This is more for face-to-face checking, however.
For your remote scenario some sort of one-way hash to verify the image
might be intersting. It would have to allow for fuzzy matching after
hashing
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:16:36PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Authentication is Something you have / know / are.
[..]
A picture glued into the card could be forged, but a
smartcard (with more data area than a magstripe)
could include a picture of the account holder,
so a thief has no
Those are the hard problems. No one in biometrics
has yet been able to solve them in a general way.
And the merchant example is the wrong application.
The merchant doesn't care WHO you are - that's a false premise.
Merchant cares if you can pay. Now, that's a completely solvable issue.
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