The application of face recognition in National Health Insurance IC Card

• Main Authors: Yung-Chih Shi, 徐雍智
• Other Authors: 張璞曾
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88130546964490419070

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 電機工程學研究所 === 93 === IC cards for health insurance has been taken effect throughout Taiwan. This is medically beneficial to the people. However, this card is closely related to everyone’s privacy and to their personal important medical data, has been the target of piracy. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to offer a mechanism to prevent the occurrence of piracy by combining human face recognition method into the system for IC health insurance cards. When people register at hospital, their IC card is readed by card reader. At the same time ,the CCD equipped on the card reader will take pictures of their faces. From the features of the human face stored on the IC card, we can compare these with the instantaneous picture to make sure that the user of this IC card is the correct person .As everyone has his unique face features ,it is very difficult to imitate.We can use this characteristic to eliminate the risk of being counterfeited.