Though difficult to quantify, the variety of possible ID document frauds at borders is a reality that threatens politicians\u00a0holding responsibility for borders as well as EU citizens.\u00a0Based on the needs expressed by practitioners, the\u00a0iMARS\u00a0consortium has launched a Horizon 2020 project that will improve the operational capacity of passport application and border control operators by providing both short-term ad-hoc solutions ensuring reliable passport application procedures and mid-term solutions with no-reference\u00a0and differential analysis solutions that can, in particular, detect manipulated and morphed passport images as well as\u00a0document fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
iMARS will provide:
\u2013 Image morphing and manipulation attack detection solutions to assess ID documents validity against document fraud, during enrolment and renewal steps, as well as at the border crossing stations
\u2013 Document verification and fraud detection solutions to support border guards in the verification process by providing mobile tools that can check document\u2019s integrity<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These technologies will be validated in laboratory conditions using operational data collected from six border control sites (with border to countries outside EU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To ensure the uptake of its outcomes after the end of the project, iMARS will:
\u2013 promote usability\/ergonomic aspects by providing training, guidelines and best practices to border guards and passport application officers
\u2013 contribute to the ongoing standardisation efforts in the field of Presentation Attack Detection and face image quality
\u2013 provide open access benchmarks (2 datasets with multiple enrolment morphed face images and border gate probe images) on a specific testing platform serving follow-on research activities
\u2013 ensure that the technologies developed are accepted by citizens and respect privacy and legal EU regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n