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What's new in ICAO Face SDK 2008

On July 18th 2008 Griaule has released the new version of your ICAO Face SDK. The features that have changed or were added are summarized below.

  • Does not matter where you took the picture:

    Support for facial images with heterogeneous background.

  • Work with .NET and Java made even easier:

    Besides the ActiveX and .DLL components, now it's available components for Java and .NET programming languages

  • Recognizes the importance of standards:

    Support for ICAO Token Image (ISO/IEC FCD 19794-5).

  • More info about ICAO images:

    Full Frontal Image requirements include several standard facial measures ratios and goals. Now, Griaule ICAO returns information about ratio values and matched/unmatched goals.

    Some ratios are listed below. They are also matched against their own ICAO standard goal.

    1. Angle of Eyes Inclination
    2. Eyes Height Ratio (eyes height/photo height)
    3. Width Face Ratio (face width/photo width)
    4. Height Face Ratio (face height/photo height)
    5. Aspect Ratio (photo width/photo height)
  • Improved eyes and mouth detection methods:

    The eyes and mouth detector algorithm has been improved with more accurate estimation of eyes center and more widely solution to eyes occlusion and face sloping problems.

  • Facilitates exchanging:

    Improved support to CBEFF (Common Biometric Exchange File Format). Now, functions allow inclusion of several facial images and flexible number of feature points (e.g. eyes and mouth coordinates). Now you can add as many facial images and as many feature points as you want to the exchange file.

  • More control of your photos:

    With the Full Frontal white background filled image creation functionality, you can have the processed photo with the dimensions you need. One common reason for unsuccessful creation of Full Frontal Image is that estimated rectangular ICAO region unbound the source image limits. Now, new white pixels are added to fill the background region to increase the width/height of the image in order to meet the right dimensions of the ICAO image.