Demo: Me, Myself and Eye
Anil Jan at Michigan State University seeks to improve security by integrating various types of biometrics.
Fingerprinting, iris scans, and face recognition may be cutting-edge identification technologies, but none alone is foolproof. At Michigan State University, Anil Jain seeks to dramatically improve security with three prototype systems that fuse several types of biometrics.
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