At present, most of the domestic companies dedicated to iris recognition products are agents of foreign products or use foreign core technologies for system integration. As far as the core technology of iris recognition products - iris recognition algorithms and image acquisition equipment are concerned, domestic There are only a few companies that can master it. Beijing Zhongke Hongba Technology Co., Ltd. has a complete set of independent intellectual property rights. It is an enterprise that masters both the core algorithm of iris recognition and the development technology of embedded iris recognition products, reaching the internationally advanced level.
Zhongke Hongba is based on the iris recognition technology of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Its iris recognition core algorithm is the scientific research achievement accumulated by the National Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences for more than 10 years. It won the 2005 National Technology Award He won the second prize for his invention, and won the first place twice with excellent performance in the international iris recognition algorithm public competition NICE.Ⅰ and NICE.Ⅱ held in 2008 and 2010 respectively (for details, please visit the website http://nice1.di.ubi .pt/ and http://nice2.di.ubi.pt/). The company's main creative personnel are composed of scientific and technological backbones and experts from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has a research, development and technical support team composed of senior professional and technical personnel (professional and technical personnel account for more than 60% of the company's total number of people, of which 15 are PhDs. Masters accounted for 25). They have both in-depth academic research and rich practical experience in the fields of product development and application engineering, and are competent in the development, maintenance and technical support of complex systems.
Up to now, Zhongke Hongba and Automation Institute have applied for 25 iris patents, including 18 invention patents, 4 utility model patents, and 3 appearance patents, and have obtained software copyrights, intellectual property rights Covers all aspects of iris recognition software and hardware systems.
Zhongke Hongba successfully launched China's first embedded, networked iris recognition equipment in 2007. It is equipped with a unique active visual feedback device, has a user-friendly interface, is easy to use, and is fast. The equipment also It is also the first iris recognition device in the world equipped with an LCD screen for user feedback.
The core algorithm used by Zhongke Hongba and the highest international level algorithm (the method of Professor Daugman of Cambridge University, UK) are already comparable in terms of recognition rate. The test results have been published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE T-IP) and other international authoritative academic journals. In the international iris recognition algorithm open competitions NICE.I and NICE.II held in 2008 and 2010 respectively, the algorithm of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences won the first place twice with excellent performance. In addition, based on rigorous testing of the algorithm and achieving satisfactory results, Sarnoff Company in the United States and IrisGuard Company in the United Kingdom have successively purchased licenses for this algorithm.
Zhongke Hongba’s iris recognition device adopts active visual feedback method, which has unique advantages. A feedback device is required in the non-contact iris collection device to guide the user to achieve alignment. Other iris recognition products currently on the market all use a blind visual feedback method, that is, a feedback method that uses a mirror-like feedback device to assist the user in aligning. It is difficult to achieve "what you see is what you get" in iris image collection, because the user directly images based on the mirror. However, due to factors such as different eye habits of users, the division of primary and secondary eyes between the left and right eyes, differences in the positions of the camera and the mirror, etc., there will be differences between the mirror imaging and the actual camera imaging. As a result, the user thinks the alignment is correct. However, in fact, no suitable images can be collected, resulting in a reduction in iris recognition efficiency. Zhongke Hongba's iris recognition acquisition equipment adopts an active visual feedback method, that is, the real content collected by the camera is fed back to the user in the form of image display. The user can easily adjust the relative position of the human eye and the camera to follow the previous Different from passive visual feedback, what the user sees is the collected result, thus achieving true "what you see is what you get".