Abstract: A method and system for authenticating a user based on a human-recognizable visual representation of biometric data of the user is captured using the digital camera, wherein a biometric feature descriptor is generated from the captured biometric data of the user, and the feature descriptor, together with a user selected user profile, is transmitted to an inspection server adapted for validating whether the transmitted biometric feature descriptor corresponds to a centrally stored biometric feature descriptor of biometric data of the user. If this is the case, the inspection server transmits an “authentication approved” signal together with user personalization data specified in the selected user profile to the inspection terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal comprising a main body having an upper surface that is substantially horizontal; a tower extending substantially vertically from said main body, so as to define an acquisition volume delimited by said upper surface and the tower; optical acquisition means arranged within the main body so as to be able to acquire an image of a biometric print placed within the acquisition volume facing the upper surface; a user interface arranged within the tower; wherein the tower has a cavity, and the user interface comprises a screen arranged at the bottom of the cavity and a semi-reflective plate closing the cavity so as to provide the optical illusion that said screen is floating within the acquisition volume. The present invention further relates to a method for acquiring an image of a biometric print by means of the terminal.

Abstract: In some implementations, a method includes: receiving, from the camera, a sample image that includes a fingerprint and a mensuration reference device, where the sample image is associated with a resolution; identifying (i) a plurality of edge candidate groups within the sample image, and (ii) a set of regularity characteristics associated with each of the plurality of edge candidate groups; determining that the associated set of regularity characteristics indicates the mensuration reference device; identifying a ruler candidate group, from each of the plurality of edge candidate groups, based at least on determining that the associated set of regularity characteristics indicates the mensuration reference device; computing a scale associated with the sample image based at least on extracting a set of ruler marks from the identified ruler candidate group; and generating, based at least on the scale associated with the sample image, a scaled image.

Abstract: A method for determining an element of interest referenced by image points, the real coordinates of a point of interest in the environment of the imaging device corresponding to an image point of the plurality of image points including selecting, in the image a noteworthy image point from among the plurality of image points, the noteworthy image point corresponding, in the real environment, to a noteworthy point for which the order of magnitude of the height is known, a predefined height being assigned to the height, calculating an absolute depth of the noteworthy image point based on a triplet of components of the noteworthy image point and on the predefined height, and determining the real coordinates of the point of interest in the real environment of the imaging device, based on a triplet of components of the image point corresponding to the point of interest and on the absolute depth.

Abstract: A card manufacturing system includes a locating device and a separation device. A laminate sheet comprising a plurality of cards is received by the locating device and is imaged using first and second imaging modalities. The first imaging modality identifies a location of each of the plurality of information carrying cards within the laminate sheet and the second imaging modality images at least one graphic formed on a surface of the laminate sheet. A position of the at least one graphic with respect to at least one information carrying card is determined and the plurality of cards are removed from the laminate sheet using information corresponding to the location of each of the plurality of information carrying cards when the position of the at least one graphic with respect to the information carrying cards is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A method for determining calibration parameters for an imaging device by way of a computer, based on at least one image having at least one person including selecting, by way of the computer, a plurality of pairs of points in the at least one image, each pair of points comprising a head point and a foot point associated with the person, and determining calibration parameters by way of the computer, using a two-dimensional estimator able to determine one of the estimated image coordinates of a head point based on the image coordinates of the foot point of a person and on the calibration parameters, determining the calibration parameters comprising minimizing an error between said estimated image coordinates of the head point and said image coordinates of the corresponding head point.

Abstract: An identification document includes a card structure including a plastic material, a surface of the card structure including a first surface region that includes a plurality of depressions formed in the surface according to a predefined pattern; and a second surface region that includes a majority of a surface area of the identification document, wherein the second surface region is non-porous. A surface energy of the surface in the first surface region is greater than a surface energy of the surface in the second surface region.

Abstract: A method and device for managing an emergency procedure of an emergency transaction mode that can be activated in the event of a computer attack on or a failure of a transaction network. The method may be carried out by an electronic device suitable for performing a transaction in a normal mode or in the emergency mode. The method performs operations that may include receiving an activation command for activating the emergency mode procedure, where the command includes an identifier of the procedure and first encrypted data; verifying the activation command, which includes verifying the first encrypted data; and if verification of the command is successful, activating the emergency procedure.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a cross-linkable polymer composition, a core layer for an information carrying card comprising such cross-linked composition, resulting information carrying card, and methods of making the same. An information carrying card includes a body defining a first cavity and a second cavity. The first cavity has a first area and the second cavity has a second area. The first cavity is continuous with the second cavity and the second area is less than the first area. A circuit element is disposed within the first cavity.

Abstract: A method including: for each image forming part of a plurality of images showing an individual, applying processing to the image so as to produce a biometric template relating to the individual; calculating an average template constituting an average of the biometric templates produced; modifying a chosen image from the plurality of images into a modified image, the modification being adapted so that an error between the average template and a biometric template produced by applying the processing to the modified image is smaller than an error between the average template and the biometric template that has been produced by applying the processing to the chosen image.

Abstract: In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification may be embodied in methods that may include designating specific information within a digital identification as secure user information and designating other specific information as non-secure user information, and provisioning user-specific authentication techniques to restrict unauthorized access to the secure user information. For instance, the secure user information may be prevented from being displayed on the digital identification without the submission of an access credential such as a user-specified code or a user biometric identifier.

Abstract: Methods for augmenting a training image base representing a print on a background, for training parameters of a convolutional neural network, CNN, or for classification of an input image The present invention relates to a method for augmenting a training image base representing a print on a background, characterized in that it comprises the implementation, by data processing means (11) of a server (1), of steps of: (b) For at least a first image of said base, and a ridge map of a second print different from the print represented by said first image, generation by means of at least one generator sub-network (GB, GM, GLT) of a generative adversarial network, GAN, of a synthetic image presenting the background of said first image and representing the second print.

Abstract: Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint.

Abstract: A method for exchanging information about an event located in a zone, including a step of opening a two-way communication channel, triggered by a user located in the zone; a step of an electronic device acquiring zone data including images of the event and location data of the electronic device; a step of transmitting zone data to a server; a step of the server analysing the zone data; a step of the server generating user information on the basis of the analysis; a step of feeding back information, wherein the server transmits the user information to the electronic device, in order to send the user information to the user.

Abstract: A locking assembly configured to lock a vehicle control radar with respect to a support, including a first plate which is configured to be fixedly mounted on one of the support and the vehicle control radar and which has a first face; a second plate configured to be fixedly mounted on the other one of the vehicle control radar and the support, the second plate including a second face configured to be placed facing the first face of the first plate; an end stop configured to prevent the first plate from moving in translation with respect to the second plate in a first direction along a locking direction; and a lock which is separate from the end stop and which is movable in translation along the locking direction, the lock being configured to prevent the first plate from moving in translation with respect to the second plate in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of verifying integrity of a pair of public and private cryptographic keys within the additive group of the integers modulo N, with N being the product of two primary numbers p and q, the method including: calculating a candidate private exponent d? corresponding to a private exponent d of the private key; and executing a test of integrity. The test of integrity includes a step for verifying the coherence of the candidate private exponent d? with respect to a public exponent e of the public key and to the numbers p and q, the verification step involving a first multiple modulo of the public exponent e of the public key and a second multiple modulo of the public exponent e of the public key.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a prelaminate for an electronic card, wherein at least a first group of pads is formed from a metal plate formed from a piece comprising a central part and branches extending from the central part, the branches of the metal plate forming the pads of the first group. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a prelaminate and an electronic card comprising such a prelaminate.

Abstract: A parameter training method for a convolutional neural network (CNN) for classifying image type data representative of a biometric trait. The method includes the implementation, by a data processor of a server, the steps of (a) for at least one data item from an already classified training database, generation of several alternate versions of this data each by application of at least one transformation chosen from a set of reference transformations satisfying a statistical distribution of transformations observed in the training database and (b) training the parameters of the CNN, from the already classified training database augmented with said alternate versions of the data.

Abstract: A method of detecting at least one element of interest visible on an input image, by means of a convolutional neural network, CNN, the method comprises the steps of: (a) extracting, by means of an ascending branch of a first subnetwork of said CNN of feature pyramid network, FPN, type, a plurality of initial feature maps (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) representative of the input image at different scales, said FPN further comprising a descending branch and lateral connections between the ascending branch and the descending branch, at least one lateral connection comprising an attention module; (b) generating, by means of said descending branch of the FPN, a plurality of enriched feature maps (P2, P3, P4, P5) also representative of the input image at different scales, each enriched feature map (P2, P3, P4, P5) incorporating the information from the initial feature maps (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) of smaller or equal scale; (d) detecting at least one element of interest visible on an input image, by means of a second subnetw

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for classifying a biometric trait represented by an input image, the method being characterized in that it comprises the implementation, by data processing means (21) of a client (2), of the steps of: (a) Determining, for each of a predefined set of possible general patterns of biometric traits, by means of a convolutional neural network, CNN, whether said biometric trait presents or not said general pattern.