INGRESS

Programme: FP7 - SEC

Instrument: Collaborative Project

Total Project budget: € 4.252.658,20

Duration: 36 months (1 November 2013 – 31 October 2016)

Full project title: INGRESS: Innovative Technology for Fingerprint Live Scanners

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RUG responsibilities:

In the INGRESS Project RUG is Work Package leader of:

WP8 Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues. The objectives of this WP are:

The links to other biometric technologies apart from fingerprint analysis which will be investigated by INGRESS may require use of and/or linkage to multiple databases containing personal data thus raising ethical and legal concerns with a particular focus on privacy and data protection. The objectives of this work-package are also to provide the R&D development work throughout the INGRESS project with the appropriate ethical and legal framework, ensuring that end-products are fully compatible/compliant with current trends in European and international privacy and data protection standards implementing the internationally-endorsed foundational principles of Privacy by Design.

Project Summary:

The objective of INGRESS is to research, develop and validate innovative technology to take fingerprint images by looking at additional biometrics associated with the finger. The project will pave the way to the manufacturing of innovative fingerprint scanners capable of properly sensing fingerprints of intrinsic very-low quality and/or characterized by superficial skin disorders. The project focuses on capturing sub-surface fingerprint and delivering a high-quality image. The technology stream of the project focuses on medical imaging technique, such as ultrasound and Full Field Optical Coherence Tomography (FFOCT), to acquire the fingerprint matrix in the dermis. Furthermore, INGRESS studies the use of Printed Organic Electronics (POE) technologies and components, such as the passive matrix of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED) and Organic Photo Diodes (OPDs) to create a new generation of high resolution fingerprint sensors. We propose to evaluate the INGRESS’ mock-ups in laboratory to compare them with legacy sensors. Tests in the field will evaluate the technology performance, the usability and user acceptance of the solution. INGRESS exploits both standard approaches and novel metrics to evaluate the operational quality of fingerprint scanners. In parallel of the technology stream, the project will investigate the potential ethical, legal and societal issues for these novel technologies. The R&D process will integrate, all along the project, the results from this investigation, to guarantee that all end-products will be fully compatible/compliant with current trends in European and international privacy and data protection standards, following the internationally-endorsed foundational principles of Privacy by Design. INGRESS will both validate the developed technologies and propose a technology development roadmap for the purpose of using fingerprints from the identity document in border control and law enforcement applications.

Website : www.ingress-project.eu

For further information please contact: Melania Tudorica (m.tudorica@step-rug.nl).