Faceshield

To develop a software and hardware solution incorporating the principle of ‘Privacy by Design’ to process and protect biometric data streams directly at source. Facial images are obscured, encrypted or irreversibly altered, preventing any reconstruction of the face whilst ensuring optimal authentication accuracy:

• Develop obfuscation and biometric protection algorithms: Mitigate the risks of facial reverse engineering and prevent the malicious exploitation of stored or transmitted templates.

• Embedded integration (Edge Computing): Adapting encryption and computer vision algorithms to the hardware constraints of optical sensors and smart cameras.

• Ensuring legal and ethical compliance: To provide organisations with a scientifically validated technical framework that meets the strict requirements of proportionality and data minimisation set out in the Data Protection Act (DPA).

• Validation under real-world conditions: To demonstrate operational reliability (low false rejection rate, robustness) on a functional industrial prototype.