Low Cost Multimodal Facial Recognition via Kinect Sensors

Biometrics is a key technology that can help identify friend from foe and deny the enemy anonymity he needs to hide and strike at will. Biometrics is defined as a measurable biological (anatomical and physiological) and behaviour characteristics that can be used for automated recognition [1]. The military needs reliable methodologies to enable it to identify people who are or might be national security threats in order to 1) keep personnel safer; 2) gain information to use, detect, detain, disrupt and deter terrorists; 3) record legally admissible evidence to use to prosecute terrorists; and finally 4) identifying friend from foe.