Reference number : GC-2017-Q4-00751, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Hatzinakos, Dimitrios (University of Toronto), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for universities, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les universités, program purpose english : With increasing integration of advanced technologies into our daily life, the need of reliable biometric_x000D_
authentication and identification systems is more pronounced than ever before in order to improve security and_x000D_
privacy and to reduce the risk of circumvention. Despite high accuracy, current biometric technologies relying_x000D_
on particular physical features such as fingerprints, face and iris characteristics are vulnerable to spoofing and_x000D_
forgery. Therefore, there is a real need for development of more reliable biometric solutions for human_x000D_
recognition that are able to continuously identify/authenticate people without requiring specific actions from_x000D_
them (e.g. placing fingers on an scanner or looking into an iris camera). In this project, we propose a feasibility_x000D_
study on human recognition based on remote video capture of eye movements and blinking. The proposed_x000D_
solution based on eye tracking data offers a more flexible design, where eye movement and blinking patterns_x000D_
are captured on video recordings taken from greater distance which is non-intrusive, simpler to analyze and_x000D_
more difficult to spoof. Furthermore, it offers an added advantage where the same features extracted for_x000D_
biometric recognition can be used for determining fatigue or other physiological conditions or behavioral_x000D_
changes., program purpose french : With increasing integration of advanced technologies into our daily life, the need of reliable biometric_x000D_
authentication and identification systems is more pronounced than ever before in order to improve security and_x000D_
privacy and to reduce the risk of circumvention. Despite high accuracy, current biometric technologies relying_x000D_
on particular physical features such as fingerprints, face and iris characteristics are vulnerable to spoofing and_x000D_
forgery. Therefore, there is a real need for development of more reliable biometric solutions for human_x000D_
recognition that are able to continuously identify/authenticate people without requiring specific actions from_x000D_
them (e.g. placing fingers on an scanner or looking into an iris camera). In this project, we propose a feasibility_x000D_
study on human recognition based on remote video capture of eye movements and blinking. The proposed_x000D_
solution based on eye tracking data offers a more flexible design, where eye movement and blinking patterns_x000D_
are captured on video recordings taken from greater distance which is non-intrusive, simpler to analyze and_x000D_
more difficult to spoof. Furthermore, it offers an added advantage where the same features extracted for_x000D_
biometric recognition can be used for determining fatigue or other physiological conditions or behavioral_x000D_
changes., agreement title english : Human Recognition based on Remote Video Capture of Eye Movements and Blinking, agreement title french : Human Recognition based on Remote Video Capture of Eye Movements and Blinking, agreement number : EGP, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2018-01-10, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada