Biometric System Laboratory

"Biometric Systems are automated methods of verifying or recognizing the identity of a living person on the basis of some physiological characteristics, like a fingerprint or iris pattern, or some aspects of behavior, like handwriting or keystroke patterns"

The Biometric System Laboratory is active at the University of Bologna since 1993 and is supported by DEIS (Department of Electronics, Computer sciences and Systems) and Computer Science degree course - Cesena. The main research efforts are devoted to fingerprint and face recognition and to performance evaluation of biometric systems. Collaborations with industrial partners ensure that the research activities are linked to real applications.

Location

Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche - Università di Bologna
via Sacchi 3, 47521 Cesena (FC) - ITALY

Highlights

		Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security Tenerife, Spain - December 02-05, 2012 The IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) is the primary annual event organized by the IEEE’s Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IEEE IFS TC). Being the main annual event organized by IEEE IFS TC, the scope of WIFS is broader than other more specific conferences, and it represents the most prominent venue for researchers to exchange ideas and identify potential areas of collaboration.

		Minutia Cylinder-Code (MCC) A new representation and matching technique for fingerprint recognition was developed and patented: Minutia Cylinder-Code (MCC). The new method is extremely fast and very accurate: it can be implemented even on very light architectures and can perform 200K comparisons per second on a low-cost PC.

		Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (Second Edition) D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A.K. Jain, S. Prabhakar Springer, London, 2009.

		FVC-onGoing: On-Line Evaluation of Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms FVC-onGoing is the latest evolution of FVC: the international Fingerprint Verification Competitions organized in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. FVC-onGoing is an innovative web-based automated evaluation system for fingerprint recognition algorithms. Tests are carried out on a set of sequestered datasets and results are reported on-line by using well known performance indicators and metrics. Academic Research Groups, Companies and independent developers are kindly invited to register and submit algorithms to FVC-onGoing.

		9h IEEE Int.l Summer School for Advanced Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication Alghero, Italy - June 08 – 15, 2012 The courses will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains. The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry. Emphasis will be given to evaluation, standardization and to define the maturity of technology for the deployment of biometrics in a wide range of applications.

		Scanner Quality BioLab introduced a new operational definition of fingerprint scanner quality.

		Quaderni CNIPA sulla Biometria (Italian language) Materiale introduttivo sui Sistemi Biometrici e il loro impiego nella Pubblica Amministrazione, alla cui redazione hanno partecipato membri del laboratorio: Quaderno 9, Quaderno 15 e Quaderno 17.

		Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation J. Wayman, A.K. Jain, D. Maltoni, D. Maio (Editors) Springer, New York, 2005.

		SFinGe: The Synthetic Fingerprint Generator The demo version of SFinGe v2.5 can be freely downloaded.