Compliance with the ICAO Doc. 9303 standard ensures that facial portraits can be used for biometric face identification and verification. Moreover, most printing technologies for identity documents require different image properties in terms of resolution, brightness and contrast.
Our MB IMAGE ENHANCEMENT software provides all the necessary features for automated processing of live-captured or scanned portraits:
Rotation adjustment
Fault-tolerant image acceptance
Correct positioning of the face
Image cropping
Correct size
Centered face
Background removal
Background treated separately
Optimized contrast between person and background
Brightness & contrast optimization
Shadow correction
Color and contrast adjustment
Background refilling
White or 18% gray background
Possibility to insert a new background
Image evaluation
Frontal position, eyes open, mouth closed
Uniform lighting, ICAO-compliant background