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Biometrics & Authentication Technologies
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| Speaker
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Andy Adler
Associate Professor
Systems and Computer Engineering
Carleton University, Ottawa
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| Day and Time
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Thursday, May 10, 2007, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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| Location
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Room BA 1240
Bahen Centre
for Information Technology
University of Toronto - St. George Campus
40 St. George Street map - code BA |
| Organizer
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Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter, Signal Processing Chapter, and Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter |
| Contact
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Bruno Di Stefano, E-mail:
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| Abstract
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Biometric authentication technologies form part of sophisticated security systems, which consist not only of biometric sensors and match algorithms, but of databases, communications and cryptographic systems. Little work has been done to study the security and privacy issues of biometric systems in this larger sense, in which well understood characteristics of one part of a system may potentially be exploited elsewhere. Since biometric images are slightly different each time they are measured, biometric algorithms must be designed to be tolerant of this variability, and this tolerance of variability can possibly be exploited in some situations to attack an authentication system. For example, to reconstruct images from biometric templates, or to attack biometric encryption methods. cover a general overview of some of the security and privacy and related technical issues in biometric authentication systems.
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| Biography
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Andy Adler is associate professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in biomedical engineering in Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
His research interests are in: 1) biometrics imaging and security systems, and the associated algorithms, measurement devices, and privacy and security aspects. and, 2) development of non-invasive biomedical measurement technologies and sensors, including the medical image and signal processing algorithms, Previously, he taught and researched at the University of Ottawa, and worked in senior technology positions at BioDentity (now cryptometrics), AiT (now 3M), DEW Engineering (now ActivCard), and CIL explosives (now Orica). Andy Adler received the B.A.Sc. (honours) in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1995. He also worked at postdoctoral positions at McGill University and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
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