Dr. Andy Adler
Assistant Professor
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
October 19, 2005
admission is free
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Mackenzie Building
4359 Carleton University
The new machine readable passport standard requires countries to include face recognition data. Applicants for US Visas now must present fingerprints. The UK government plans to issue biometric enabled identity cards to all citizens. In the last three years, biometric identification has become a technology that will impact all of our lives.
This talk will give an overview of biometric technologies, especially fingerprint, face, and iris recognition. We'll explore how they work, how well they work, when/how they don't work, and how they're evaluated.
Biometrics technology generates significant concern for its privacy and security implications. I'll give my opinions on these issues, as well as what problems they are likely to be able to solve, and which capabilities will remain "hype".
Andy Adler received the B.A.Sc. (honours) in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 1990. In 1990-1991, he worked in research at CIL explosives. He then returned to school and completed a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1995. In 1995-1998, he worked at postdoctoral positions at McGill University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. In 1998-1999, he was hardware engineering team leader for American Biometric Company. Subsequently, in 1999-2001, he worked for AiT corporation as a senior software engineer, architecting and developing cryptographic and biometric security technology systems for government applications. In 2001-2002, he was the senior biometrics scientist for BioDentity Systems corporation. In 2002, he joined the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa. His interests are: 1) development of novel biomedical measurement devices and medical image and signal processing algorithms, and, 2) biometrics imaging and security systems, and the associated algorithms, measurement devices, and privacy and security aspects.
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