Re: Gait advances in emerging biometrics
At 12:31 PM 12/14/04 -0500, Sunder wrote:
Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/14/alt_biometrics/ Gait advances in emerging biometrics
By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk) Published Tuesday 14th December 2004 15:07 GMT
"Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait." William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Retinal scans, finger printing or facial recognition get most of the publicity but researchers across the world are quietly labouring away at alternative types of biometrics.
Recognition by the way someone walk (their gait), the shape of their ears, the rhythm they make when they tap and the involuntary response of ears to sounds all have the potential to raise the stock of biometric techniques. According to Professor Mark Nixon, of the Image Speech and Recognition Research Group at the University of Southampton, each has unique advantages which makes them worth exploring.
Look up Johansson, et al. Point light displays. Yes you can tell sex, age, etc., from the ratios of rotational axes, etc, but a stone in the shoe is a bitch. All faith is in drivers' licenses, a total joke, I got gummies on your 'prints, all your time-derivatives are mine. But grant$ are good, and flavor$ of DARPA be bitchin.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:58:27PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Look up Johansson, et al. Point light displays. Yes you can tell sex, age, etc., from the ratios of rotational axes, etc, but a stone in the shoe is a bitch.
Isolated biometrics are nigh to useless. But integrated, they become increasingly more and more difficult to fool. Some of it is cheap, too. There are phase-evaluating 2d integrated sensors which have a depth of up to 7 m, which are very cheap in principle. Mounted in a gate, this will give you face/ear/head geometry. Calculating a fingerprint from a topology map is something any embedded can do. With IR/NIR you'll get a skin pigmentation map. Teraherz will give you body geometry. Olfactorics will give you volatile MHC fragments, and thus a hash of your immune diversity (and your current perfume). Add gait recognition, and you've got a real rich telebiometrics signature. Anyone who owns that infrastructure is even more dangerous than who 0wns the voting machines. The perfect enabler to establish a totalitarian control system.
All faith is in drivers' licenses, a total joke, I got gummies on your 'prints, all your time-derivatives are mine.
But grant$ are good, and flavor$ of DARPA be bitchin.
Absolutely. It's like owning a mint for grant money. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
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