Introduction to Biometrics and Gait Biometrics

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Biography

I'm the Professor in Computer Vision at the School of Electronics and Computer Science. My research interests are in image processing and computer vision. I have helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametric and non-parametric) which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis. We were early workers in face recognition, later came to pioneer gait recognition and later joined the pioneers of ear biometrics, and currently we're working on soft biometrics where we recognise people by human attributes. Amongst previous research contracts, I was Principal Investigator with John Carter on the DARPA supported project Automatic Gait Recognition for Human ID at a Distance, on the General Dynamics Defence Technology Centre's program on data fusion (biometrics, naturally), on the MoD/ARL (US) IBM-led Information Technology Alliance and projects supporteed by the EPSRC, NERC, and the EU.

I am a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the IAPR (for services to biometrics and computer vision) and am the Distinguished Fellow of the BMVA 2015 award. Amongst professional tasks I was previously chair of the IAPR Fellows Committee, the President of the IEEE Biometrics Council and Vice Chair IEEE PSPB.

I chaired the British Machine Vision Conference BMVC'98 held at Southampton in September '98 for the the British Machine Vision Association. Apart from being a programme member/ reviewer for other conferences, Josef Kittler and I chaired IAPR International Conference Audio Visual Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2003) and was Publications Chair for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004) at Cambridge UK with Josef Kittler, I co-chaired the IEEE 7th International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition FG2006 held at Southampton, UK in 2006. More recently I have been program co-chair at many of the top biometrics conferences (IEEE BTAS, IEEE/IAPR IJCB, IAPR ICB) and general chair BTAS 2010, ISBA 2016 (Japan), IJCB 2017 (USA), and track chair ICPR 2016 (Mexico). MIUA came to Southampton in 2018 and then it was time for Crete (excellent!) it's ICB 2019

Mark Nixon
University of Southampton, UK