Dr. Marina Gavrilova

Associate Professor, BT Lab Head, Department of Computer Science,

University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

CSED WeekBiometric Technologies Lab

BT Lab Activities

Google images 20113

Biometric System

Google Images 2011

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Cyber Thief

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Landmark / Logo recognition

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Given a query image, find images similar to it in a large, unordered collection.

Similar?

Image courtesy: Oxford landmark image database [3]

Facial Recognition/Emotions

Social Context in Gait Recognition

• Gait recognition combined with social analysis and behavioral studiesImages: HumanID and CASIA

public databases

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Security in Cancellable Biometrics

• Cancelable Biometrics

Intelligent Decision Making in Information Fusion8

CONNECTING VIRTUAL ROOMMATES VIA FEATURE-BASEDSPATIAL MAPPING

In collaboration with A. Sherstyuk, Avatar realty, USA

Artimetric - Avatar Recognition(with R. Yampolskiy, U of Louisville, USA)

To learn more

• Google Marina Gavrilova or Biometric Technologies Lab, University of Calgary

• National Museum of Civilization

Live Sciences Exhibit: Power of Biometrics - From science fiction to reality, 2011-2012

• Science Daily: Researchers

Advance Biometric Security 2012• BBC News: Virtual People

to get ID checked, 2011

National Museum of Civilization, June 2011

BBC News: “Is this the same cyclops you saw yesterday?”