IDEMIA Unveils LASINK™ Helios

IDEMIA has launched a new security feature, based on optically variable elements, that combines colour personalisation and DOVID technologies to secure secondary portraits.

Humans are equipped with fantastic innate pattern recognition ‘hardwired’ into our visual processing system. You only have to look at someone’s face, whom you haven’t met for years, for a few seconds to recall their identity and trigger memories of your previous meetings.

Machines can also be taught to gather and assess facial patterns, which makes the portrait on a secure document a doubly important security feature from the perspective of both human and machine inspection.

Protecting the portrait from copying, tampering or manipulation is essential to securing the document, which is why an increasing number of issuing authorities use a secondary portrait as an additional security feature. The secondary portrait validates the primary portrait, thus confirming to an inspector the identity of the document holder. Cross-referencing the primary and secondary portraits further increases their protection.