www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com By Homeland Security News Wire
To the long list of body features used to identify a person’s identity – fingerprints, palm design, vein architecture, retina signature, facial recognition, voice, heart pulse, and more – we may now add another part of the human anatomy: one’s butt
Japanese engineers have designed what they describe as “butt fingerprint.” The first application of the new biometric technology would be to embed it in cars’ driver seats, thus preventing carjacking or car theft. If the car does not recognize the driver’s butt as that of the car’s owner, the engine would stall.
The Verge reports that Associate Professor Shigeomi Koshimizu at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo uses a seat pressure map to generate a web of thirty-nine indices which are used to identify a subject’s rear end. The Japanese researchers report that the results so far have been encouraging, with average Type 1 error (failing correctly to identify the driver’s behind) of 2.2 percent, and Type 2 error (mistakenly letting someone else drive away) of only 1.1 percent…
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