The School of Engineering and Digital Arts next Research Seminar entitled “Biometrics Meets the Bayes’ Wars” will be delivered by Professor Jim Wayman on Tuesday 16th October at 2 pm in Sibson Seminar Room 3.\u00a0 The talk will focus on automated human recognition systems, comparing samples of human characteristics, such as fingerprints, facial images, voice records or iris images, to develop a metric indicating the degree of similarity or difference between the patterns.\u00a0 The talk will examine a few of the arguments behind “Bayes’ Wars” in forensic applications and will discuss why biometrics remain useful for opening phones, bank accounts and immigration gates.<\/p>\n
James L Wayman, PhD, FIET, FIEEE is an Honorary Professor of Biometrics at the University of Kent and a Principal UK. Expert on the British Standards Institution biometrics committee IST\/044. He has previously been a biometrics advisor to the National Cyber Security Center and the Identity and Passport Service (now the UK. Passport Office).<\/p>\n
All members of staff are welcome to attend.\u00a0 RAs, postgraduate and undergraduate students are also encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n
Any queries should be directed to Professor Farzin Deravi<\/a>, who is also chairing the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"