Biometrics

Catalog description

Biometrics has emerged as an important tool for user identification and authentication in security-critical applications, both the physical and virtual world. At its core, biometrics is an application of machine learning and anomaly detection. This course introduces biometrics concepts by building on machine learning and anomaly detection, and shows how state-of-the-art machine learning techniques are currently applied to biometric authentication. The course covers core biometric topics, and discusses the innovations made in the past decade. The course also concentrates on emerging biometric applications and their privacy, security, and usability, implications in a networked society. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisite: DTSC 710