Potsdam, NY, June 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), based at Clarkson University, is celebrating its 20th year.
CITeR, which performs research in the growing areas of identity science and biometric recognition, is a National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. Biometrics is the automated recognition of individuals based on their biological and behavioral traits. Centers like CITeR focus on the needs of industry and government through collaborations between these groups and universities.
Stephanie Schuckers, Clarkson’s Paynter-Krigman Endowed Professor in Engineering Science, serves as director of CITeR.
“At points, we wondered whether this research would become a ‘solved’ problem, and then new challenges would emerge: spoof detection, biometric cryptography, altered finger detection, biometrics at a distance, biometric permanence, and more,” she says. “And now, here we are in 2022, with additional challenges such as face morphing, deepfakes, bias, template security, biometrics in children and many others.”
Since awarding its first research grants in 2002, CITeR has performed cutting-edge research as new problems evolve each year.
Some fundamental scientific studies funded by CITeR examine permanence — how a trait remains essentially unchanged throughout one’s lifetime — in aging adults and children. The research found that accurate identification by fingerprint in adults…
