CPSC 697, Fall 2011

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Course Textbooks

1. Image Pattern Recognition: Synthesis and Analysis in Biometrics
S. Yanushkevich, M. Gavrilova, P. Wang and S. Srihari (Eds), World Scientific Publishers, 2007

2. Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation
Editors: J. Wayman, A. Jain, D. Maltoni and D. Maio, Springer, 2005

 Additional reading:

3. Handbook of Face Recognition
Editors: Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain Springer, New York, 2005

4. Handbook of Multibiometrics (International Series on Biometrics)
Arun A. Ross, Karthik Nandakumar, and Anil K. Jain, Hardcover - May, 2006

5.Computational geometry: Algorithms and Applications
M. de Berg, M. van Kreveld, M. Overmars, O. Schwarzkopf, Springer, 1997

Course Description

      Biometric Technologies is one of the rapidly growing areas of computer science, concerned with representation, storage, matching, synthesis and visualization of biometric information. Tremendous advance has been achieved over the last few years in both fundamental theoretical development of fundamental algorithms for biometric identification, matching and synthesis, and in biometric hardware and software production.

    The course objective is thus to familiarize students with the recent developments, encompassing new discoveries in the areas of information representation, image processing, database system design, surface modeling and visualization. Traditional and emerging technologies for fingerprint matching, face reconstruction, emotion animation, iris synthesis, voice recognition, thermogram-based biometrics, and fusion methods will be studies in the course.

Biometric Technologies laboratory equipment and software will be used to illustrate some of the practical applications. Impact of these developments on the society, privacy and ethics will also be considered.
 

Objectives and Outcomes

The objective in offering this course is to study advanced algorithms in the area of applied sciences, computer graphics and biometric technologies. The course introduces theoretical bases for studying biometrics, with particular focus on algorithmic foundations, computer graphics techniques, topological properties of the biometric data, information representation, data storage and data search, comparison and matching.

The methods and techniques learned in the course will be illustrated on the examples of solving verification, identification, and synthesis problems for a variety of biometrics. Biometrics such as fingerprint, face, eye, ear, palm, gait, voice, signature and others will be discussed.

Particular interest will be on hardware devices and their rapid development, as well as the variety of specific software developed for particular agencies (government, academia, banks, individuals etc.). Impact of these developments on the society, privacy and ethics will also be considered.

The formal component of the course will involve a research project, writing a research paper, and making a presentation on a subject.

Course Outline

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

          Oct 19th - Priyadarshi, Jonathan, Polash

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Course Evaluation

Three components are included in the determination of the course grade.

Assignments can be in the form of a written take home assignment, a research paper analysis, or a problem to solve over some period of time. Quizzes can be given in class or to take home. Two presentations in the course relate to assignment and final project presentation.

Collaboration

Students are encouraged to discuss the assignments and methods of solution with other students. All work that is handed in as a solution to the assignment must be original work of the student. Any student found copying all or part of an assignment from another student or another source without proper acknowledgement of the copyright will face consequences outlined in Plagiarism/Cheating/Other Academic Misconduct sections of the University calendar.

Deadlines

The list of course deadlines is below.

Assignments can be in the form of a written take home assignment, a research paper analysis, or a problem to solve over some period of time. Quizzes can be given in class or to take home. Two presentations in the course relate to term paper and final project presentation.

Assignments

Assignments and Quizzes are essential part of this course and intended to help students to develop valuable research skills, such as ability to solve problems using knowledge obtained from the course, ability to critically analyze methods and techniques, ability to compare and contrast different solutions, ability to write a critique on a paper or a scientific article, and ability to compare different approaches to the same problem.

There are 2 assignments and 1 quiz in the course:

Assignment 1: Biometric privacy and security case study- worth 10% Due Wed Oct 19th 1:00 pm

CPSC601Asmt2_2011.doc: Biometric paper analysis and critique - worth 10%  Due Wed Nov 9th 1:00 pm

Quiz: Given in class, Wed October 26th, in-class

Biometric term paper

Paper requirements

Term paper marking scheme

This project allows students to perform an extensive literature review and in-depth methodology analysis with particular emphasis on the form in which the results of the research are reported.

The project should present a comprehensive literature review on one of the topics of choice by student  and should be written in the form of a research report of 20 to 30 pages, article with title, abstract, introduction, background, method description and comparison, analysis and conclusion and references.

The deadline for this assignment is:

Monday, October 31st, 9:00 pm by e-mail to course instructor

Presentation

Presentations will take place during Week 6 and Week 14

Presentation marking scheme

Sample presentations (posted with permission) can be found here:

Sample Presentation 1

Sample Presentation 2

Project

Project Requirements (all components)

Sample Interim report

Interim report marking scheme

Final report marking scheme

Individual research project is an essential component of this course. Students are expected to select a topic of research project from the course outline, which can include theoretical research in the area of image processing, computer graphics, statistics, analysis of algorithm performance, or applied studies (including development and implementation of a biometric system or a specific algorithm).

The deadlines for submitting project components are as follows:

Monday, September 26th, 1:00 pm - Abstract is due (1 page including3 references)

Monday, October 17th, 9:00 pm - Interim report is due (10-15 pages)

Friday, December 2nd, 9:00 pm - Final report is due (25-30 pages) (FIRM DEADLINE)

December 2-9 - Final Project Presentations (30 min each)

Sample Project Presentation (posted with permission): Priyadarshi Bhattachariya

Selected project topics from previous years:

Useful links

Biometric Technology Lab

BTLab, University of Calgary

General Biometric Bibliography

Biometric bibliography

Fun staff

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