Recent Advances in Behavioral Biometrics
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
COM2 Level 4
Executive Classroom, COM2-04-02
Abstract:
Services are migrating from the physical to the digital domain in the information society. Examples of this conversion to the digital domain can be seen in: e-government, banking, education, health, commerce, and leisure. In this context, identity authentication has become a fundamental need to ensure proper use and access to digital resources. Biometric technologies have emerged to fill the gap of traditional recognition technologies based on passwords or cards. The advantages of biometric systems are clear in terms of security and convenience of use, which has led these technologies to take on a leading role in the last years. The most popular biometric technologies (such as fingerprint, face or iris) are linked in general to access control applications or forensic science. These technologies typically require specific one-shot imaging sensors, reducing this way their universality and interoperability. Moreover, there is currently an increasing demand for remote authentication solutions that cannot be adequately met with the already mentioned biometric technologies, e.g., web-based authentication. Therefore, there is a need for new technologies better suited for remote authentication. In this talk we will overview recent advances in biometric authentication based on user behavior and actions while interacting with certain devices or applications (such as common tasks with a smartphone). We will focus in behavioral biometrics like handwriting, keystroking and swipe touch interaction, with a practical application to the FinTech sector.
Biodata:
Julian FIERREZ received the MSc and the PhD degrees in telecommunications engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Since 2004 he has been affiliated with the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, where he is currently an Associate Professor since 2010. From 2007 to 2009 he was also a visiting researcher at Michigan State University in USA under a Marie Curie fellowship. His research interests include general signal and image processing, pattern recognition, and biometrics. Since 2016 he is and Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Information Fusion, and the IEEE Biometrics Council newsletter.
Prof. Fierrez has been actively involved in multiple EU projects focused on biometrics (e.g. TABULA RASA and BEAT), he has attracted notable impact for his research, and he is the recipient of a number of distinctions, including: EBF European Biometric Industry Award 2006, EURASIP Best PhD Award 2012, Medal in the Young Researcher Awards 2015 by the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Miguel Catalan Award to the Best Researcher under 40 in the Community of Madrid in the general area of Science and Technology. In 2017 he has been also awarded the IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award given to a single researcher worldwide every two years under the age of 40, whose research work has had a major impact in biometrics.