One of the UK’s leading pioneers in biometrics will deliver a guest seminar at our Malaysia Campus on Friday, 24 January, 2014.
Biometrics involves the identification of humans by their characteristics or traits including the way we walk and the shape of our ears, both of which Professor Nixon believes can be used as part of security surveillance and building access control.
Mark Nixon, Professor in Computer Vision at the University of Southampton, and his team are part of the University’s Centre of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity as designated by the UK government’s intelligence division GCHQ and the Department for Business and Skills. The team is actively involved in developing new techniques for static and moving shape extraction which have found applications in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis. The team were early workers in face recognition and later came to pioneer gait recognition. More recently they joined the pioneers of ear biometrics.