Plenary Lecture

Soft Biometrics: Its Use for Biomedical Applications

Professor Carlos M. Travieso-González
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Spain
E-mail: carlos.travieso@ulpgc.es

Abstract: Soft biometrics is a technological evolution of biometrics systems applied to security. Its use has been extended to many fields, for example, social networks, where the information of the facial images can say the range of age, type of gender and race to find automatically the preferences of a relationship, or the facial identification for labelling photos.
In particular for biomedical applications, the use of soft biometrics too has been used. It is acquired physiological measures and/or a set of phenomenon or psycho-physiological reactions from diverse stimulus where it can be obtained a normal or altered (pathology) answer. Soft biometrics modalities as voice, electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, face, etc. have been applied.
For Neurology, besides the purely experiential, subjective and phenomenological aspect, there are physiological processes due to changes caused by the thoughts or behaviors, which lead to that emotion. Thus, it can be mentioned one of the most important and visible manifestations, which are caused after an emotion behavioral manifestation external, called "emotional expression".
Among the different modes of manifestation, the facial expression is one of the more evidence the emotional states of the person whose major muscles of the face that modify these facial expressions are specifically controlled by the facial nerve and the trigeminal nerve, which controls the muscles of the jaw. The found experimental results are correlated with the previous manifestations; and under medical supervision, validate the use of soft biometrics on biomedical applications.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Carlos M. Travieso-González received the M.Sc. degree in 1997 in Telecommunication Engineering at Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain; and Ph.D. degree in 2002 at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC-Spain). He is an Associate Professor from 2001 in ULPGC, teaching subjects on signal processing and learning theory. His research lines are soft-biometrics, biometrics, biomedical signals, data mining, machine learning, classification system, signal, image and video processing, and environmental intelligence. He has researched in more than 35 European, International and Spanish Research Projects, some of them as head researcher. Currently, he has three patents’ applications in the Spanish Office of patents and brands. He is co-author of 2 books, co-editor of 8 Proceedings Book, Editorial Board member of JCIN, JAEE, JCS and JBIA (journals) and Guest Editor for five international journals and up to 15 book chapters. He has been invited 5 times as Plenary Speaker on international conferences. He has over 300 papers published in international journals and conferences. He is being reviewer up to 30 international journals (JCR-ISI) and has been Program Committee Conference member up to 50. He is member of IASTED Technical Committee on Image Processing from 2007 and member of IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems from 2011. He will be IEEE-IWOBI 2015 General Chair; and was IEEE-IWOBI 2014, InnoEducaTIC 2014, IEEE-INES 2013 General Chair, NoLISP 2011 General Chair, JRBP 2012 General Chair and Co-Chair on 39th Annual 2005 IEEE-ICCST. He was Vice-Dean from 2004 to 2010 in Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers in ULPGC. Nowadays, he is a Vice-Dean of Head of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies from March 2013.

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