Are you really who you say you are? – Apr. 10, 2009, Denton, TX
Should Alice be allowed to enter the country? Is Bob entitled to access the database? Has John been convicted before? Is Charlie the real owner of the credit card? Every day, a variety of organizations pose questions such as these about the identity of individuals. From retinal scans to voice detection, high-tech identification grows in response to fraud, and homeland security concerns. Biometric recognition allows people to be identified by who they are, rather than by what ID they carry or what password they use.
Dr. Anil K. Jain, a pioneer in the emerging field of biometric recognition, and distinguished professor of computer science at Michigan State University, discussed new techniques that allow people to be identified by who they are, rather than by what ID they carry or what password they use. Specific topics discussed by Dr. Jain included ongoing research on fingerprint and palmprint matching; fingerprint individuality; face recognition; and matching and retrieval of scars, marks and tattoo (SMT) images.
“We were very happy to have Dr. Jain come to UNT as the inaugural speaker in our Distinguished Lecture Series,“ said Murali Varanasi, chair of the department of Electrical Engineering. “His visit to our College was a great opportunity for our faculty and students to directly engage with a researcher of Dr. Jain’s stature,” said Varanasi.
