MB Image Enhancement

 

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