Guest lecture: Professor Anil Jain
October 23, 2020
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Virtual
Guest lecturer Professor Anil Jain will speak on the topic: Biometric Recognition: How do I know who you are?
Abstract
From unlocking your mobile phones to international border crossing, we often provide our fingerprints, face and iris images to verify who we are. This is biomeetrics, which refers to automated recognition of individuals based on their biological and behavioral traits. In essence, biometrics links your identity with your body attributes, which are more secure and trustworthy than PIN, password, and ID documents. The first algorithm for fingerprint recognition was published by Trauring (1963), for face by Kanade (1973), and for iris by Daughman (1993). Since then, progress in representation (feature extraction) and matching (comparison between probe and database images) algorithms have made it possible to accurately recognize individuals in real-time based on their biometrics. Despite this progress, a number of challenges continue to inhibit the full potential of biometrics. In this talk, Jain will present some of these challenges and some of the ongoing projects in his laboratory.
Speaker bio
Anil Jain is a distinguished professor of computer science and Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE and is a recipient of Guggenheim, Humboldt, Fulbright, and King-Sun Fu awards. He served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and as a member of the United States Defense Science Board and Forensic Science Standards Board. Jain is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the World Academy of Science and a foreign member of the Indian Naional Academy of Engineering and Chinese Academy of Science.