Biometrics
PRA Lab’s Biometric Unit was founded by Prof. Gian Luca Marcialis, who is currently head of the research group, since 2001. The PRA Lab’s Biometric Unit has gained a significant experience in fingerprints and faces recognition systems, detection of presentation attacks, deepfakes, and anomalous events in crowds.
RESEARCH TOPIC
Personal authentication
Personal recognition through physiological and behavioral characteristics.
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Crowd Analysis
Anomaly detection in crowd analysis refers to the ability to detect events that deviate from normality.
RESEARCH TOPIC
Multimodal biometrics
Combining information coming from different biometric traits and soft-biometrics.
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Behavioral biometrics
Analysis of behavior and biomedical signals in the biometric domain.
People involved
Fabio
Roli
Full Professor
Gian Luca
Marcialis
Associate Professor
Luca
Didaci
Associate Professor
Giulia
Orrù
RTDa
Marco
Micheletto
RTDa
Roberto
Casula
PostDoc
Sara
Concas
PhD student
Simone Maurizio
La Cava
PhD student
Gianpaolo
Perelli
PhD student
Active projects
Supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) within the PRIN2017, the project has been included in the Global Top 100 list of AI projects addressing the 17 UNS-DGs (United Nations Strategic Development Goals) by the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO.
Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition
In order to cover the lack of common data and protocols to assess the performance of fingerprint presentation attack detection (PAD) systems, the Biometric Unit organized the International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet) since from 2009. The LivDet competitions aim to assess the performance of fingerprint PAD algorithms using a common experimental protocol and data sets. The competition is open to academic and industrial institutions which have developed fingerprint PAD algorithms.