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ICAAS-NLB IT@Orchard, 2 September 2003

Abstract

We are so used to recognize people in our daily life that we often take this task for granted. Even if we do not know a person directly, he or she can be identified and trusted merely by the fact that he is associated with a person whom we know. With the proliferation of global business and travel, and with the rapid advancement of Information Technology (IT), we are not confined to just interacting with the limited people living around us. It becomes inevitable for us to interact with people that are foreign to us, people whom the identity we cannot be sure of or cannot totally trust. In the IT world, this problem becomes even more acute as a person can be anonymous. Thus a technology to verify or authenticate the identity of a person is needed. Also needed is the technology to ensure that a person does not have multiple identities. Biometrics is an emerging technology that fills this need of identity authentication. In this talk, various type of biometric technology such as fingerprint, voice, face, etc. will be explained. In addition, some of the unique applications possible with this technology will be discussed.

Biodata

Dr. Yau Wei Yun is a Department Manager at the Institute for Infocomm Research, leading the research and development effort in the area of human computer interaction. His research interests include biomedical engineering, biometrics, computer vision and intelligent systems. He actively participates in both national and international biometric activities. Currently he is the Protem Chair of the Biometrics Technical Committee, Singapore. Dr. Yau initiated and served as the Program Director of the Biometrics Enabled Mobile Commerce (BEAM) Consortium from 2001 to 2002.

Dr. Yau received his BEng (Electrical) degree with Honours from the National University of Singapore in 1992. He obtained his MEng degree in the field of biomedical image processing in 1995 and PhD degree in the area of computer vision in 1999, both from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He was a recipient of the Kuok Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship and his undergraduate project won the top prize in the Electronic Engineering/Telecommunications category of the Technology Fair 1992. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Research Engineer and then Program Manager at the Centre for Signal Processing, NTU, Singapore where his team won the top 3 positions in both speed and accuracy in the international Fingerprint Verification Competition 2000 (FVC2000). He was also the recipient of the TEC Innovator Award in 2002 and the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award 2003 (Merit) for the Drowning Early Warning System.