Author, researcher and professor Anil Jain will present Biometric Authentication: How Do I Know Who You Are? at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at the Erickson Alumni Center on West Virginia Universitys Evansdale Campus. The free presentation is part of the Biometrics Lecture Series sponsored by the Biometric Knowledge Center (BKnC) at WVU .
Dr. Jain will address broad issues surrounding biometrics, or the use of a persons physical characteristics or traits as human authentication, in an age of increasing concerns about security. Jain will present various applications of biometrics, challenges associated in designing biometric systems, various fusion strategies available to implement a multimodal biometric system, and issues related to securing the template and data encryption using biometric information.
Jain is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. His research interests include statistical pattern recognition, exploratory pattern analysis, Markov random fields, texture analysis, object recognition, medical image analysis, document image understanding and biometric authentication.
Several of Jains papers have been reprinted in edited volumes on image processing and pattern recognition. He received the best paper awards in 1987 and 1991, and received certificates for outstanding contributions in 1976, 1979, 1992, 1997 and 1998 from the Pattern Networks Outstanding Paper Award. He also received the 1996 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award.
Jain is a fellow of the IEEE and International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR).
He has received a Fulbright Research Award, a Guggenheim fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He delivered the 2002 Pierre Devijver lecture sponsored by IAPR .
Jain holds six patents in the area of fingerprint matching. He recently authored the book”Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition”.
Registration for the lecture is requested. Please send name and email address to Tammy.Pauley@mail.wvu.edu or call 304-293-8281.