The use of multiple biometrics can provide increased accuracy, robustness and universality to an identity verification process. Real world biometric applications often need to have low error rates and complete population coverage that cannot be currently achieved using any single biometric. This is particularly important given the wide variety of environments and demographics under which many large scale government applications need to operate. This presentation will examine the issues and techniques used for multimodal biometric fusion, and highlight areas that need further research.
Bio
Dr. Ted Dunstone is the CEO of Biometix, a company specializing in biometric consulting, testing and services for the government and aviation sectors. He has been involved with biometrics and authentication for over ten years.
Dr. Dunstone also founded the Biometrics Institute, a not-for-profit organisation engaged in research, analysis and education for biometric users, vendors and government agencies in the Asia Pacific. The Institute has become the leading forum for government and industry on biometrics issues. Most recently it has formulated a Privacy code specifically for Biometrics.
Dr. Dunstone has a computer engineering degree from the University of South Australia and doctorate in machine learning and biometric identification from University of Wollongong. His PhD was completed in 1995 under a scholarship to investigate the detection of terrorists in airports. In 2003 he was the recipient of the state NSW Pearcy Award which is given for innovative and pioneering achievement and contribution to research and development within the IT&T industry.
