Biometrics lab of IIT Kanpur and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University Institute of Engineering & Technology, CSJM University, Kanpur is jointly organizing an International Workshop on Biometrics to create a platform for researchers from academia, industry and Government organizations to work on recent development in the field of biometrics across the globe, especially in India. The workshop will consist of talks by eminent researchers both from India and abroad, followed by expositions from various organizations. Among the various researchers, Professor Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University, USA, Professor Pabitra Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, Professor S. Dutta Roy, IIT Delhi have already confirmed their participation.
Biometrics is the field of work where a person is recognized through his biological features (like Iris, Face, Ear, Fingerprint, Palmprint, Hand-Geometry) or behavioral characteristics (such as Signature, Voice and Gait). To recognize a person accurately, one cannot rely on PIN, Password or any other low level security based systems. Problems of these systems like loss of PINs or passwords can be eliminated by using personal biometric attributes. Biometrics may include methods for uniquely recognizing a person based on one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral characteristics. A multimodal system can be built up by combining Fingerprint-verification, Face-recognition, Voice-verification, Smart-card etc. The enhanced structure will take advantage of the proficiency of each individual biometric traits.
Both forensic science and biometrics are used for the individual identities. But they do so for very different reasons. Biometrics uniformly applies to a pre-event situation while forensic science applies to post-event situations. With the availability of the advanced biometric technologies, the work of forensic science is expected to change dramatically in the near future. There is a need to create an elite group of researchers to work in forensic science laboratories so that the group will be specialized in extracting and interpreting evidences from biometric traces. Present automatic biometric recognition technologies have matured to a reasonable level at which they can be useful in forensic science. Through this workshop, we intend to accumulate advancement of the fundamental biometric detection technologies and typical forensic usage to proximate.
The concept of Automated Identification using biometrics can be integrated to existing processes and systems for grater efficiency and accuracy as and when required. In this context, there have been many implementation and trials across various activity sectors, ranging from physical access control to network access, banking, and border control, time and attendance monitoring and more. Present scenario needs strong and fast biometrics security systems with high accuracy to ensure the prevention of our society from crime.
The contents of the workshop are appropriate for a wide variety of individuals – Govt agencies, academic faculty, policy developers, law enforcement officials, industry executives, information technology users, personal authentication/identification developers, students. Workshop introduces various biometric traits and concentrates on "how to recognize a person correctly, where we can not rely on PIN based or other low-level security systems".