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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R02955/01
Title:	Scid: Secure Customer Identification For Drive-In Retailing
Principal Investigator:	Cootes, Professor TF
Other Investigators:	Taylor, Professor C Taylor, Professor CJ
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Project Partners:	Computer Recognition Systems Ltd Shell Visual Automation Ltd
Department:	Medical and Human Sciences
Organisation:	University of Manchester, The
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	15 April 2001	Ends:	14 August 2004	Value (£):	198,982
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Image & Vision Computing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Communications Retail Transport Systems and Vehicles
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The proposed project addresses the problem of providing convenient and secure access to the drive-in retail services. The key idea is to combine emerging face recognition technology with existing vehicle recognition technology, to achieve unobtrusive but highly reliable customer identification. Access to retail services is currently regulated by the use of physical tokens (cash, credit cards, electronic vehicle tags). This is sometimes augmented by the use of PINs or passwords. These approaches are generally open to fraud a token can easily be used by an unauthorised individual and are inconvenient because the authentication process is time-consuming, tokens can be mislaid and passwords or PINs forgotten. The combination of vehicle identification (recognised by number-plate and vehicle type) with face recognition offers the possibility of dependable authentication that is extremely convenient to use. We intend to build on existing expertise within the consortium to develop and test an integrated customer identification system based on a combination of face and vehicle recognition. The key research issues relate to achieving face recognition that is robust to variable pose, lighting and expression. The project will result in new science, and exploitable technology.
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