IBG provides research and consulting services to law enforcement officers, corrections officers, technologists, and other stakeholders in the criminal justice community.

Approach

IBG leverages over a decade of experience conducting testing and evaluation to assist the criminal justice community in understanding the capabilities and limitations of technologies such as mobile biometric devices, novel sensors, and surveillance technologies. IBG works with both vendors and end-users to communicate requirements, conduct performance testing, and contribute to technology enhancement efforts.

Solutions

IBG's services and solutions for justice applications include:

• Performance and usability testing
• Pilot program planning
• Requirements gathering
• Technology demonstrations
• Vendor Technology Assessments
• Best practices recommendations
• Technology surveys 
• Market assessments

Clients 

From 2007-2009, IBG was contracted by the U.S. Department of Justice to establish and operate the Sensors, Surveillance, and Biometric Technologies Center of Excellence, providing hands-on subject matter expertise and technology assistance to 19,000+ U.S. state and local criminal justice agencies.

In 2005, IBG received two grants from the National Institute of Justice to conduct research on cutting-edge biometric technologies for criminal justice applications, focusing on multimodal fusion systems and high-resolution fingerprint technologies.

Cutting-Edge Fingerprint Algorithm Research

IBG conducted an 11-month evaluation examining the utility of Level III fingerprint features found in high-resolution fingerprint images - ranging from 2000dpi to 3791dpi - for automated identification. IBG studied whether scanning fingerprints at high resolutions generates friction ridge detail and discriminating information sufficient to support utilization of new automated matching tools.

IBG collected and evaluated over 25,000 high-resolution fingerprint images to study the  permanence and distinctiveness of Level III features such as pores and ridge morphology.

Multimodal Fusion Research

IBG conducted an 11-month research project, Efficient Field-Optimized Multimodal Biometric System (EFOMBS), that evaluated the accuracy of multimodal fusion and normalization techniques used in biometric systems.

Results provided guidance to law enforcement professionals determining how to most effectively leverage biometric data, as well as implement biometric matchers, in present-day and future biometric systems.

IBG processed its internal database of over 100,00 fingerprint, face, and iris samples through commercial matching engines to generate comparison scores. For each inter-modal matcher combination, comparison scores were normalized (placed on a common scale) and fused (combined though some statistical method).