Published: 09-23-2026

New capability helps organizations evaluate biometric face images against ISO and ICAO image-quality requirements 

SAN FRANCISCO — September 23, 2026 — Paravision, a leader in trusted Identity AI, today announced the Paravision ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite, a new software product designed to help organizations evaluate the quality and standards compliance of face images used in passports, visas, identity documents, and travel and border applications.

The Paravision ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite assesses compliance with the globally-important ISO/IEC 19794-5, ISO/IEC 39794-5 and ICAO 9303 standards, which include specifications for quality and presentation of face images in machine-readable travel documents and government identity programs. s. These image quality specifications cover factors such as face size and framing, pose, eyes and expression, face visibility, lighting and exposure, and background quality. They are relied upon by governments and organizations implementing passport, identity document, and travel workflows to help ensure images are suitable for biometric processing.

The Paravision ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite evaluates face images across these criteria and provides an overall result alongside the individual measurements and analysis behind that result. This gives organizations visibility into the underlying image-quality criteria and enables them to integrate those results into their own workflows. Thresholds can be configured at the individual-check level to support different requirements and implementations.

The ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite is designed to complement Paravision’s existing quality metrics, as well as its presentation attack, synthetic media, and deepfake detection capabilities, which are all based on single-frame, passive capture. Together, these technologies can power a secure, fast, intuitive, and standards-compliant single-step user experience.  

Image quality is fundamental to the performance and usability of biometric identity systems, and a combination of modularity and standards compliance is fundamental to scaled deployment of these systems. The Paravision ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite gives organizations a practical way to evaluate portrait images against established requirements, while giving them visibility into the underlying measurements and the flexibility to integrate those results into their existing workflows.
Joey Pritikin, Paravision Chief Product Officer

The suite also includes an optional background-standardization capability that can generate a version of a portrait with a uniform background.

The announcement builds on Paravision’s recent work in travel and border applications, including its support for the UK Home Office’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), emaratech’s Red Carpet Smart Corridor at Dubai International Airport, and a biometric pedestrian exit pilot at the Progreso International Bridge border crossing in Texas.

Organizations interested in learning more about the ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite can contact Paravision at paravision.ai/contact.