Norman Poh

Norman Poh CVSSP University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1483 68 60 42   Fax: +44 1483 68 60 31

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Short Bio :

Norman Poh received the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2006  from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has been a Research Fellow with the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP ), University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, U.K., since Sept 2006. He is one of the Work-Package Leaders in the Mobile Biometry (MOBIO) project (2008-2010), responsible for designing adaptive multimodal biometric systems. Prior to joining CVSSP, he was a research assistant at IDIAP research institute. His areas of interest are pattern recognition, video processing, biometric authentication, and information fusion, in which he has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.
He was the recipient of five best paper awards (AVBPA’05, ICB’09, HSI 2010, ICPR 2010 and Pattern Recognition Journal 2006) and two personal research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He won the Researcher of the Year 2011 Award, University of Surrey. Dr Poh is recognised as an IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional (IEEE CBP).

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Researcher Expertise 

Biometric person authentication is an emerging field that aims to recognise a person based on his/her biometric features. Examples are face, speech and fingerprint. Because no system can provide 100% accuracy, we aim to improve the system robustness using several biometrics, also known as multimodal biometric systems. We can provide expertise/training in general pattern recognition as well as in the following areas (related to person authentication):

• biometric template-updating,
  
• analysis of biometric system performance change over time,
  
• confidence interval estimation/generalization of biometric performance (over different population types, environment, application scenarios)
• incorporating quality information into biometric systems, and
  
• user/client-specific processing

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What's new

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Datasets to Download

• The BANCA Score Dataset [containing 1186 baseline systems for fusion]
• The Biosecure DS2 Score+Quality Dataset  [The is the first known publicly available score+quality dataset]
• The XM2VTS Score-level Fusion Benchmark Dataset  [more than 220 downloads! The associated journal paper received an honorable mention for the 2005-2006 Biennial Pattern Recognition Journal Awards]

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Software to Download

The software comes without any warranty. It is provided as Matlab p-code. If you require the source codes, please drop me an email me.

• Optimal fusion of liveness detection measure with biometric mather output
• Group-specific score normalization

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Presentation to Download

• "Adaptive Multimodal Biometrics: Quality-based, User-specific Information and Beyond", the First Algerian Biometric Summer School (ASSB), Algiers, Algeria, 25 May 2010

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Collaborators

• Dr. Anil Alexander (Oxford Wave Research Ltd, UK)
• Dr. Samy Bengio (Google Inc., USA)
• Dr. Thirimachos Bourlai (West Virginia University, USA)
• Prof. Josef Kittler and members of CVSSP (University of Surrey, UK)
• Dr. Krzysztof Kryszczuk (IBM & Patternlab, Switzerland)
• Dr. Sébastian Marcel (IDIAP, Switzerland)
• Dr. Daigo Muramatsu (Seikei University, Japan)
• Dr. Ajita Rattani (Universita di Cagliari, Italy)
• Prof. Fabio Roli (Universita di Cagliari, Italy)
• Prof. Arun Ross (West Virginia University, USA)
• Prof. Massimo Tistarelli (Universita di Sassari, Italy)
• Dr. David Windridge (University of Surrey, UK)
• Other collaborators in the MOBIO project and the Biosecure Network of Excellence