[fprint] question about biometric verify

[Linos]

El 28/09/11 05:45, Chow Loong Jin escribió:
> On 28/09/2011 00:49, Wolfgang Ullrich wrote:
>> afaik the libfprint driver is not capable of identification with upek
>> devices. For my own project FingeprintGui I've used the proprietary
>> Linux driver "libbsapi.so" from UPEK. See
>> http://www.pdfserver.net/fingerprint for more details.
> 
> Speaking of which, I've actually written a driver for libfprint that uses
> libbsapi for all its tasks. It's a tad bit incomplete though -- I didn't
> implement the identify_* functions, but it works for scanning and verifying, and
> works pretty well with fprint_demo, libpam-fprintd, and libpam-fprint.
> 
> Unfortunately, due to the non-free dependency on libbsapi, that driver is
> excluded from the main libfprint tree.
> 
> On the other hand, using the Upek device on my Thinkpad E220s seems to interfere
> with the bluetooth device, so I've stopped using it and have stopped developing
> it as well.
> 
> You can find it at https://github.com/hyperair/fprint-bsapi or
> git://github.com/hyperair/fprint-bsapi.git.
> 
> A potential idea that can be looked at is to have a directory for manufacturers
> to dump proprietary drivers in the form of .so files into, in a similar manner
> to the SANE drivers for scanning. This would allow manufacturers to integrate
> their drivers into libfprint and the rest of the fingerprint authentication
> infrastructure on Linux without needing programs like Fingerprint GUI to treat
> each and every SDK separately.
> 
> It would also allow out-of-tree drivers like this bsapi driver I wrote to be
> distributed, compiled, and installed separately.
> 

I think that given the lack of openness of many manufacturers this would be a
great idea.

Miguel Angel.