Videoconferencing Identity Verification via Real-Time Face and Document Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional videoconferencing systems lack the capability to verify the true identity of participants in a trustworthy manner, which is essential for legal security, especially in situations requiring certified identification, such as e-governance.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that verify the identity of participants by capturing and comparing real-time face images with images from official documents using technical image analysis, ensuring that the identity is verified before and during the video or telephone call, and displaying verified data to the other participant.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional videoconferencing applications are used, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability of identity verification deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identity verification by capturing and analyzing the participant's face image and official document before the videoconference begins. This preliminary action ensures that identity verification is completed in advance, maintaining ease of operation during the actual conference while establishing reliability beforehand.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary identity verification module that acts as a mediator between the participant and the videoconference system. This intermediary component captures images, performs technical image analysis to verify identity, and provides certified verification information to other participants, thereby enhancing reliability without complicating the overall operation.
2Reliability
If identity verification using official documents is implemented, then reliability of identity verification is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a multi-functional terminal device that integrates videoconferencing, image capture, technical image analysis, and identity verification capabilities into a single universal platform. This allows the same device to perform multiple functions, reducing the need for separate specialized equipment and thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables participants to perform their own identity verification using their personal terminal devices, official documents, and face images. The technical image analysis is automatically conducted by the device itself or by the system server, eliminating the need for manual verification processes and reducing operational complexity despite the enhanced verification capability.
3Measurement precision
If face image comparison using technical image analysis is used, then measurement precision of identity verification is improved, but loss of time during setup increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs the time-consuming technical image analysis and face image comparison as a preliminary action before the videoconference begins. By completing the identity verification process in advance, the system ensures high measurement precision without causing time loss during the actual conference, as the verification is already completed beforehand.
Solution Approach 2:
The system rapidly processes the face image comparison and technical image analysis during the setup phase, rushing through the verification process efficiently. This allows the system to complete the precise identity verification quickly, minimizing the time loss during setup while maintaining high measurement precision.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach provides a trustworthy means of identity verification, ensuring the same level of legal security as in-person meetings, allowing secure videoconferences without the need for physical presence.
Implementation Method 1
The two images are captured immediately before the setup of the video or telephone call. The step of verifying the identity of the first participant further comprises the step of verifying the identity at least by comparing the first image with the face image included in the second image, by means of technical image analysis.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method for conducting a videoconference including a certified verification of at least one communication partner (first participant). Thus, another communication partner (second participant) is provided with legal certainty that the person whom he or she talks to is indeed the person she says she is. For this purpose, on the side of the first participant a technical verification step is performed in advance of setting up the video call, which is based at least on a comparison of an image of the first participant captured in real-time and an image available on an official document such as an ID card of the first participant. In case of success, respective verified identification information of the first participant is transmitted to the terminal equipment of the second participant and indicated to the second participant.