Australia is promoting a plan to substitute face authentication & fingerprint scan for passport

ByAditya Doshi

In January 2016, the Customs and Border Protection Bureau of the United States announced the introduction of face authentication technology to destroy the counterfeit passport, and actually the face authentication system operation for some users at John · F · Kennedy International Airport In Australia, aiming to prepare the system in 2020 that "90% passenger can enter the country by face authentication and fingerprint scan without giving out passport" in Australia.

'World first': Government moves to radically overhaul Australia's international airports
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/world-first-government-moves-to-radically-overhaul-australias-international-airports-20170116-gtss5w.html


Facial recognition systems to replace passports at Australian airports by 2020
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/facial-recognition-systems-to-replace-passports-at-airports-in-australia/

The idea of ​​substituting a face authentication system as a passport has been undertaken several years ago, and since the trial operation was conducted at Washington Dulles International Airport from March 20 to 2015, from January 2016Introducing face recognition system at immigration control at John F. Kennedy International Airport. From February it will be introduced to Washington Dulles International Airport as well.

What is used here is a technique called "NeoFace" by NEC, and it compares the face of a traveler photographed with the camera attached to the gate for immigration to the face photo data of the passport it reads to determine whether it is the same person Judge in real time.

Even in Japan, the demonstration experiment of immigration examination by face authentication was carried out at Narita airport and Haneda airport in 2014. Also used in this case is a system that compares the face picture registered in the IC chip of passport with the face of the traveler, and the traveler can quickly step by step "pass over the machine to the machine" and "shoot the face" People said that it was completed in about 20 seconds.

Experiment started at Narita airport by entering and exiting by face authentication NHK News
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20140804/k10013537351000.html(WebArchive)


Australia is working on a five-year plan called "seamless traveler" project, starting from 2015. As a name, we aim to seamlessly enter travelers.

Originally in Australia, these efforts were actively carried out, and since 2007 the automatic immigration control system called "smart gate" has been used for electronic passport owners. With smart gate, we were able to quickly complete the procedure by scanning the IC chip of the electronic passport.

A new system replaces this "smart gate" more conveniently, and it is necessary to make a procedure by recognizing either face, iris, fingerprint or some. According to John Coin of the Australian Strategic Policy Research Institute / border guard leader, unlike smart gates, travelers can be certified without stopping in a new system, so it is said that procedures can be carried out more smoothly than ever before about.

The system plans to start trial exclusively for flights to Singapore and Wellington at Canberra Airport from July 2017. In November 2017 we will start testing at major airports such as Sydney and Melbourne, and we plan to begin actual operation in March 2019.

The Australian Government is aiming to make it possible for automated processing of 90% of travelers' procedures without human intervention in 2020.