[CSENews] New Course: Biometrics CSE 491, section 001

[Teresa Isela VanderSloot]

Dear CSE students,

Please be aware of a new course being offered this Fall. This class will 
count as one of your CSE 400 level courses.

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Description:

Biometrics refers to the science of recognizing humans by utilizing the 
physical (e.g., fingerprint, face, iris) and/or behavioral (e.g., gait, 
signature) traits of an individual. This course will discuss several of 
these traits and the automated techniques used for feature extraction 
and matching. The focus will be on automated face recognition, 
fingerprint recognition and iris recognition. Topics related to 
multimodal biometrics, protecting biometric templates, and biometric 
data privacy will also be presented. The programming projects will be 
geared toward implementing basic feature extraction and matching algorithms.

Objectives:
To equip students with a good knowledge of: (a) the design and working 
of a generic biometric system; (b) the features used to represent and 
match individual biometric traits; (c) the performance metrics used to 
evaluate a biometric system; (d) the socio-legal implications of biometrics.

Pre-requisites:
A basic knowledge of statistics, linear algebra, and programming is 
expected. Please contact the instructor at rossarun at cse.msu.edu if you 
have any questions.

Assignments and Projects:
The course work will (tentatively) include 3 small projects, 3 homework 
assignments, 3 quizzes, and 2 exams.

Time: 3-4:20 on Tuesdays and Thursdays


		  	

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Teresa Isela VanderSloot
Academic Adviser
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Phone: 517-353-5455