Issues in face-voice authentication
Prof. Michael Wagner (University of Canberra)
CSL SEMINAR SERIESDATE: 2003-08-26
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:00:00
LOCATION: RSISE Seminar Room, ground floor, building 115, cnr. North and Daley Roads, ANU
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ABSTRACT:
Research over the past two decades in speaker recognition and in face recognition has recently generated viable commercial products in both areas. Both technologies, however, while efficient and useful in specific environments, do not presently adapt well to ecological changes, such as variations of illumination or room acoustics. Person authentication by a combination of face and voice features offers a number of advantages, amongst them higher reliabiltiy and robustness owing to the use of two largely independent feature sets, as well as a higher level of confidence in the "liveness" of the synchronous dynamic audiovisual signal. This talk gives an overview of existing face recognition and speaker recognition methods and discusses models of combining the technologies in the context of potential Internet and eCommerce applications.
BIO:
Michael Wagner obtained a Diplomphysiker degree from the University of Munich in 1973 and a PhD in computer science from the ANU in 1979. He has held research and teaching positions at Technical University of Munich, University of Duisburg, National University of Singapore, University of Wollongong, Australian Defence Force Academy, Australian National University and Nixdorf Corporation. From 1993 to 1996 he was project leader of the TRUST multimedia authentication project at ANU and since 1996 he has been professor of computing at the University of Canberra. Currently he is a visiting fellow at Computer Sciences Lab, RSISE. His publications are mainly in the areas of speech and speaker recognition. Michael Wagner was the foundation president of the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) and he is a board member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Since 1990 he has also been chair of the East Timor Foundation.
