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ID Verification:What is ID Verification

Last Updated:Oct 26, 2023

Background

Electronic KYC (eKYC) is the process of completing identity verification and other KYC requirements digitally. The key requirement of eKYC is identity verification(IDV), which ensuring that a customer or client is actually who they say they are. It outperforms other traditional identification processes with its high accuracy, efficiency improvement, low labor costs and less physical contacts of people. It offers end users convenience, speed, and privacy.

What is ID Verification

ID Verification is an AI-powered eKYC solution to accurately verify the authenticity of user identities. With document recognition, liveness detection and face comparison involved, Alibaba Could ID Verification provide a risk-based approach to the customers in terms of digital identity systems.

Features

Document recognition

OCR feature enables the identity information extraction from the images of documents. It determines whether the ID documents have been tampered with by using the industry-leading forgery detection AI technology. Recapturing and photo copy can also be effectively detected.

Liveness Detection

ID Verification accurately collects and identifies the facial expressions and actions of users during interactions in real-time. This detects whether the facial expressions and actions belong to real people, defending against identity fraud (such as screen recaptures and printing crops), to ensures the authenticity of the collected data.

Face Comparison

ID Verification quickly extracts and recognizes facial biological characteristics. It uses similarity calculation to help quickly confirm whether the images belong to the same person, with over 99.8% accuracy.

Solution Options

The following table shows more information about integration involved and products supported.

Solution

Product code

Description

Integration mode

eKYC

eKYC

An online eKYC solution, including ID Recognition and face recognition.

  • Native App SDK mode

  • Mobile Web (H5) mode

eKYC_MIN

Pure API mode

Liveness Verification

FACE_VERIFY

Collect and compare a selfie to the local database with biometric liveness checks, to ensure the user is the same person already in the system.

  • Native App SDK mode

  • Mobile Web (H5) mode

Liveness Detection

FACE_LIVENESS

Capture and detect a user's selfie, to determine whether it is a live person.

  • Native App SDK mode

  • Mobile Web (H5) mode

FACE_LIVENESS_MIN

Detect a person's face photo belongs to a live person or not.

Pure API mode

Face Comparison

FACE_COMPARE

Compare two face images to determine whether they are from the same person.

Pure API mode

ID Recognition

ID_OCR

Capture an image of ID card and complete information extraction via OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, with ID spoofing check.

  • Native App SDK mode

  • Mobile Web (H5) mode

ID_OCR_MIN

Detect and determine whether the ID card image is forged or not, with information extraction.

Pure API mode

Integration mode

Alibaba Cloud provides a variety of integration mode for you to integrate with ID Verification.

  • Native APP SDK mode: provides an SDK and related server-side APIs for integrating with a native mobile application so that end users can start the Alibaba Cloud services through the mobile application.

  • Mobile Web HTML5 (H5) mode: provides a web SDK and related server-side APIs for integrating with a mobile web (H5) application or H5 pages so that end users can start the services via a mobile web application or mobile web browser.

  • Pure API mode: provides server-side APIs for developers to directly call the services.