Lecture on November 29, 2006 - "Biometrics: Solution for Security & Authentication? "
Bruno Di Stefano
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Title
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Biometrics: Solution for Security & Authentication?
Speaker
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Prof. Konstantinos N. (Kostas) Plataniotis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
http://www.dsp.toronto.edu/~kostas/
Day
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006,
Time
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6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
6:00 Arrival & Networking
6:30 Talk
7:30 Conclusion
Location
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Room GB 244
Galbraith Building
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
35 St. George Street map - code GB
Organizer
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The Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter
(http://toronto.ieee.ca/chapters/s_ci.htm)
Contact
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Bruno Di Stefano, b.distef...@ieee.org
http://bruno.distefano.googlepages.com/home
Abstract
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Biometric identification, authentication, verification of claimed
identity, and prevention of unauthorized access to physical assets and
confidential, sensitive information are critical elements of an
effective security architecture in several civilian and commercial
applications. Biometrics, a measurable physical characteristic or
personal behavior trait that can be used to identify and verify a
claimed identity appears to be the obvious choice for large scale
authentication, user identification and platform/application
attestation. However, despite the progress made during the last few
years biometric systems still have to reckon with a number of problems
which illustrate the need for the: (i) introduction of new biometric
processing solutions, (ii) proliferation of application standards, and
(iii) the development of user confidence in biometrics system
performance.
This introductory presentation aims to focus on emerging biometric
technologies and comprehensively cover the scientific side of their
system, processing and application aspects. The presentation will
discuss biometrics related activities at ECE-UofT and briefly touch
upon biometrics-based outreach activities and the links to personal
privacy and security.
Biography
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Konstantinos N. (Kostas) Plataniotis, received his B. Eng.degree in
Computer Engineering from University of Patras, Greece in 1988 and his
M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute
of Technology (Florida Tech) in Melbourne, Florida, USA in 1992 and1994
respectively. He is an Associate Professor with The Edward S. Rogers
Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University
of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, an Adjunct Professor with the
School of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, and a member of The University of Toronto's Knowledge Media
Design Institute. His research interests include biometrics,
communications systems, multimedia systems, and signal & image
processing.
Dr. Plataniotis is aregistered professional engineer in the province of
Ontario, and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is an
Associate Editor for the IEEETrans. on Neural Networks and the IEEE
Signal Processing Letters as well as the image processing Area Editor
for the IEEE Signal Processing Society'se-letter. Dr. Plataniotis is a
member of the IEEE TAB Committee on Biometrics. He was the Technical
Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICME-2006 and the Vice-Chair of IEEE
ITSC-2006. He is the 2005 recipient of IEEE Canada's Outstanding
Engineering Educator Award "for contributions to engineering
educationand inspirational guidance of graduate students" and the
co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks Outstanding
Paper Award.
Speaker's Web Page
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http://www.dsp.toronto.edu/~kostas/
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The speaker, Prof. Konstantinos N. Plataniotis
(http://www.dsp.toronto.edu/~kostas/)
is one of the winners of the "2003 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
Best Paper Award"
an award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
(http://ieee-cis.org/). The paper is
"Face Recognition Using Kernel Direct Discriminant Analysis Algorithms"
Juwei Lu,
Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, IEEE
Transactions on
Neural Networks, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 2003
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Feel free to bring along any colleague who may be interested in this
talk.
The "Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter" is an IEEE
Toronto chapter of:
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
- IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
- IEEE Ultrasound, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
If you are a member of one or more of these societies and wish to be
active in our chapter, please, write to me an short e-mail message.
Thank you.
Best regards
Bruno Di Stefano
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Relevant web pages
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http://toronto.ieee.ca/index.html
http://toronto.ieee.ca/chapters/s_ci.htm
http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/nov2906.htm
http://www.dsp.toronto.edu/~kostas/
http://ieee-cis.org/
http://bruno.distefano.googlepages.com/home
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