Press Release: Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Biometrics Center Selected To House New Pedo-Biometrics Research and Identity Automation Lab
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Lab To Test New Identity Automation Technology Using the Human Foot
Contact: Chriss Swaney / 412-268-5776 / swaney@andrew.cmu.edu
PITTSBURGH—Identity science takes a giant leap forward with a new discipline in biometrics. Â鶹¹ÙÍø researchers at the new $1.5 million per year Pedo-Biometrics Research and Identity Automation Lab are teaming up with Autonomous ID, an Ottawa, Canada, company currently relocating operations to the U.S., to test insole sensory system prototypes for a variety of identification uses, from security to detecting the onset of such diseases as diabetes and Parkinson's.
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Pedo-Biometrics Lab, headed by Professor , will provide the roadmap for scientific analysis and algorithm research and development for the new pedo-biometrics discipline, which uses a specially designed insole to monitor foot movement.
Vladimir Polotski, the chief science and technology officer of Autonomous ID, will work with Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Savvides and to provide researchers with the instructional technology intrinsic to the emerging science of pedo-biometrics.
"This new collaboration is a wonderful way to showcase our ongoing work in the emerging field of biometrics and our growing commitment to integrate innovative lab work with the needs of industry. It also offers wonderful opportunities for fundamental research in pedo-biometrics with potential applications in medical diagnosis, forensic science, privacy, security and automation," said Bhagavatula, a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE).
"The establishment of the Pedo-Biometrics Lab at Â鶹¹ÙÍø recognizes our technological achievements and we look forward to exploring the new frontier at the university," Polotski said.
Todd Gray, chairman and president of Autonomous ID, said this new Â鶹¹ÙÍø lab gives his company the needed research and development boost to field trial the primary identity apparatus dubbed BioSole and its cloud connected automation suite governing the access and use of controlled resources.
"The continuing threats to military personnel and critical infrastructure and the growing national cyber security vulnerabilities demand a new breed of credentialing technology, and what our group has achieved certainly puts a whole new spin on things," Gray said.
Savvides reports that the new lab will be housed at Â鶹¹ÙÍø and will complement his work of using the iris of the human eye as a fingerprint to trap cybercriminals. "As a researcher and a professor, this new frontier is exciting. There is really no limit to what can be done with this new identity technology; I look forward to beginning."
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