TITLE: Hierarchical Fingerprint Verification

PRESENTER: Neil Yager, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~nyager/, nyager@cse.unsw.edu.au

AFFILIATION:School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/

DATE: Thursday 30th March 2006

TIME: 11:00:00

PLACE: CSE Seminar Room, Level 1, K17

ABSTRACT:

Fingerprints have been an invaluable tool for law enforcement and forensics
for over a century, motivating research into automated fingerprint based
identification in the early 1960's. More recently, fingerprints have found
an application in the emerging industry of biometric systems. Biometrics is
the automatic identification of an individual based on physiological or
behavioral characteristics. Due to its security related applications and
the current world political climate, biometrics is presently the subject of
intense research by private and academic institutions. Fingerprints are
emerging as the most common and trusted biometric for personal
identification. However, despite decades of intense research there are
still significant challenges for the developers of automated fingerprint
verification systems. This talk includes an overview of all major stages
of the fingerprint verification process. At each stage, an analysis of
shortcomings is performed, and contributions are made. A particular focus
is upon fingerprint registration, which is the challenging problem of
aligning two prints in order to compare their corresponding features for
verification. A hierarchical approach is proposed consisting of three
stages. Experimental results show that the hierarchical approach is
robust, and outperforms competing state-of-the-art registration methods
from the literature.

BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKER:

Neil Yager is PhD Student at the School of Computer Science and Engineering,
UNSW. His research interests include image processing and pattern
recognition, and his PhD thesis is entitled 'Hierarchical Fingerprint
Verification'.

Host:

Arcot Sowmya

Seminar Convenor:

Van Hai Ho