Sonic Foundry to Hold Congressional Briefing Offering Alternative to National Id Card

Rather than start from scratch, a more realistic and timely solution, say long-time digital data experts Wactlar and Pendyala, is to manage biometric data in secure databases, as opposed to directly embedding information into an entirely new type of card. This system could then take full advantage of existing forms of IDs – such as driver's licenses and passports – and avoid the issuance of biometric-enabled cards and readers.

Sonic Foundry, a rich media company that helps some of the world's largest entertainment companies capture, index and analyze massive amounts of digital information, has developed a complete system that can capture and manage multiple forms of biometric, media and text information as part of a single, unified identification dossier. This new software will be showcased at a congressional briefing on Feb. 12.

Designed to help government agencies capture and manage multiple types of human identification information, Sonic Foundry's Unified Security View[TM] (USV) utilizes continuous enrollment capabilities and a multi-biometric analysis engine to provide a more thorough, timely ID dossier that ensures greater accuracy in the identification process. The USV platform is derived from a seven-year, $20 million Carnegie Mellon University research effort funded by leading government agencies and private corporations, including NASA, DARPA, NSF, Bell Atlantic, Boeing, CNN, Intel and Microsoft.