| Title | Advances and Current Research in Biometric Recognition |
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Dr. El-Sayed M. El-Alfy |
Abstract
“Recently, there has been a growing interest and several advances have been witnessed in the field of biometric technology. Biometric authentication recognizes a person based upon the pattern of one or more intrinsic anatomical or behavioral human traits such as fingerprint, face, iris and retina, hand shape and palmprint, signature, voice, gait, etc. It has attracted significant attention of researchers and relies on a multitude of techniques from different areas including image and signal processing, computer vision, computational intelligence, pattern recognition, data mining, statistical analysis, multimedia systems, forensics and information security. It becomes very common to use biometrics in national security for border control; in securing access to restricted areas, e.g. airports, hospitals and academic buildings; and in gaining access to computing devices and services in healthcare, medical, governmental, educational, industrial, and business information systems. In this talk, we will first present a brief overview of biometric recognition systems. Then we will review the current status, challenges and emerging research trends and technologies in this field. Finally we will share some results on multimodal and fusion techniques for biometric recognition with several examples from the literature.”
Biography
Dr. El-Alfy is currently Associate Professor in the College of Computer Sciences and Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He has been actively involved in several funded research projects and published widely in areas related to intelligent systems, computer networking, and information security. He is a founder and coordinator of the “Intelligent Systems Research Group (ISRG)” at KFUPM. He is also chairing the ABET/CAC Accreditation Committee in the Computer Science Department at KFUPM. Dr. El-Alfy has served in the organization of many international conferences and refereed several manuscripts and research proposals for leading journals, conferences and funding agencies. He is Senior Member of IEEE; Member of ACM, IEEE CS, and IEEE CIS; Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems; Associate Editor of the International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and Communications. He received several awards and recognitions among them King Abdullah Award for the Translation of Computer Networking textbook in 2012, Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching from KFUPM in 2011 and is being listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.
