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Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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Introduction

STEPHEN S. INTILLE

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts


VISVANATHAN RAMESH

Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.

Princeton, New Jersey


The profileration of cheaper, novel sensors, faster computers, and intelligent algorithms has made the effective monitoring, identifying, and tracking of objects and persons much more feasible. Modalities for identifying and tracking objects include: radio-frequency identification devices (RFIDs), bar codes, and so on. Modalities for the biometric identification of people include facial-recognition systems, fingerprint analysis, hand-geometry analysis, iris recognition, and many others. The combination of biometrics and digital passports will enable the tracking of individuals and their whereabouts. Moreover, video surveillance systems, which are being increasingly used in public areas, will be able to detect, track, capture, and log faces of individuals and, potentially, match them to faces in databases.

The presentations in this session will provide an overview of the trends and research challenges in technologies in this field. As the capability to identify, track, and monitor individuals improves, we will need safeguards against the misuse of these capabilities. Thus, privacy issues related to the deployment of these technologies will also be discussed.

The presentations will focus on the following topics: (1) an overview of research challenges and face-recognition technology by Peter Belhumeur; (2) an evaluation of biometrics for face recognition by Jonathon Phillips; and (3) the practical use of RFIDs for activity recognition by Matthai Philipose.

Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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Suggested Citation:"ID AND VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Introduction." National Academy of Engineering. 2006. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11577.
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This volume includes 16 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2005. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2005 symposium covered four topic areas: ID and verification technologies, engineering for developing communities, engineering complex systems, and energy resources for the future. A paper by dinner speaker Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is also included. The papers describe leading-edge research on face and human activity recognition, challenges in implementing appropriate technology projects in developing countries, complex networks, engineering bacteria for drug production, organic-based solar cells, and current status and future challenges in fuel cells, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the eleventh volume in the USFOE series.

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