IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics 2019

Contactless Fingerprint Identification: Recent Advances and Challenges

Abstract

Automated fingerprint recognition has matured as a reliable approach for authenticating humans through decades of research and development. Recent advances in fingerprint recognition are rapidly incorporating contactless finger acquisition. The rationale behind the progressive use of contactless fingerprint acquisition can be attributed to the improved user convenience, hygiene and prevention from the residual impressions. Emerging contactless fingerprint technologies enable deformation free and hygienic acquisition of ground truth finger ridge-valley details but pose new challenges for accurately matching with respective contact-based fingerprint images, billions of which are available in various government databases. In this talk, I will discuss on recent advances in contactless fingerprint identification technologies and share some of our results. We will also discuss on the technical challenges that are limiting the deployment of emerging contactless 3D fingerprint technologies and further research on the contactless fingerprint technologies.


Biography

Ajay Kumar received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2001. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, Delhi, India, from 2005 to 2007. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research interests are on biometrics with an emphasis on hand biometrics, vascular biometrics, iris, and multimodal biometrics. He holds seven U.S. patents, and has authored on biometrics and computer vision based industrial inspection. He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security from 2010 to 2013, and served on the program committees of several international conferences and workshops in the field of his research interest. He serves as an area chair for CVPR 2019, was the Program Chair for ICEB 2010 (Hong Kong), Program Co-Chair for the IJCB 2011 (Washington DC), ICB 2013 (Madrid), and CVPR 2013-2019 Biometrics Workshops. He has also served as the General Co-Chair of the IJCB 2014 (Tampa), ISBA 2015 (Hong Kong) and General Chair for WIFS 2018 recently held in Hong Kong. He serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters and has served on the IEEE Biometrics Council as the Vice President (Publications) during 2011-2015. He is a Fellow of IAPR and IEEE.

Ajay Kumar

Ajay Kumar
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong