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Standards-Ready ISO/ICAO Image Quality for Identity and Travel

The Paravision ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite evaluates facial images against key ISO/IEC and ICAO image-quality requirements for passports, visas, identity documents, and travel and border applications, providing an overall result along with the individual measurements behind it.

Built for Identity, Travel, and Border Workflows

Quickly evaluate facial images against ISO/IEC 19794-5, ISO/IEC 39794-5 and ICAO 9303 requirements, with clear results that help organizations identify image-quality issues before they impact downstream identity workflows.

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Use Cases

Passport and Visa Applications

Evaluate face images against established requirements before they enter downstream document and biometric workflows.

Identity Document Enrollment

Help ensure facial images captured for government identity programs meet defined image-quality criteria.

Travel and Border Applications

Assess face images used in travel authorization, border, and passenger-processing workflows.

Core Capabilities

01

Framing

Evaluate image size and aspect ratio, as well as facial size and position within the image, to help determine whether the portrait meets defined presentation requirements.

02

Pose & Gaze

Analyze facial angle and gaze direction to identify images that fall outside configured pose requirements.

03

Eyes & Expression

Evaluate key facial characteristics, including eye visibility and expression, to support compliant portrait presentation.

04

Face Visibility

Assess whether important facial regions are sufficiently visible for downstream biometric processing, including detection of headwear, eyewear, and other occlusions.

05

Lighting & Exposure

Analyze illumination, exposure, and shadows that can affect portrait quality and biometric usability.

06

Background Quality

Evaluate the image background against defined requirements, with optional background standardization available for supported workflows.

07

Individual Measurements

Access the underlying measurements and results for each image-quality check, providing visibility into the factors behind the overall result.

08

Configurable Thresholds

Configure acceptance thresholds for individual checks to align the evaluation with the requirements of a specific implementation.

Detailed Image Quality Intelligence

Go beyond a simple image-quality result with individual checks, measurements, and configurable thresholds. The ISO/ICAO Image Quality Suite integrates with Paravision’s broader Identity AI capabilities, including face recognition, presentation attack detection, and synthetic media detection, to support secure, standards-aligned identity workflows.

Tech Specs

  • Key Metrics
  • Features

Key Metrics

Face Size & Framing
Analyze face dimensions and positioning within the image.
Pose Analysis
Evaluate facial orientation against configured requirements.
Eyes & Expression
Assess eye visibility and facial expression.
Face Visibility
Evaluate visibility of key facial regions and detect common occlusions.
Lighting & Exposure
Analyze illumination, exposure, and shadows.
Background Quality
Evaluate background characteristics, with optional background standardization.

Features

Configurable Thresholds
Set individual acceptance thresholds for supported checks.
Detailed Results
Return an overall result together with individual measurements and analysis.
Support of Key Standards
Assesses face image compliance with the globally-important ISO 19794-5, ISO 39794-5 and ICAO 9303 standards
Single-Frame, Passive Processing
Evaluate image quality from a single image and integrate with Paravision Liveness Suite and other biometric security capabilities.

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA
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Headquarters

San Francisco, CA
[email protected]

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