Authentication Collaboration Combines Facial Recognition with Barcode Scanning

Toronto-based Applied Recognition and New York’s Intellicheck are putting their heads together to offer a selfie-based authentication solution. The companies are essentially licensing their technologies to each other, allowing both to combine Applied Recognition’s biometric facial recognition with Intellicheck’s barcode reading technology. The end result is an authentication system in which an end user takes pictures of the front and rear of a barcoded identity document, as well as a selfie; then, facial recognition technology compares the images to verify the user’s identity.