IrisBase - Smart Sensors Iris Image Database

Management

Martin George has for several years worked as a consultant in the commercial strategy, systems, human factors and operations impact of ID technologies, including TV/video image processing, RFID, smart cards and biometrics used in identity determination, protection and tracking applications. He has worked with clients including BAE Systems plc, Motorola Inc, and Cambridge University Engineering Department. Martin was also instrumental in realising voice ID authentication using proprietary signal processing, speech recognition and verification technology licensed into mobile phone and access control applications with customers such as ARM, TI, Schlumberger (Axalto), QinetiQ, and AT&T (NCR).

Martin holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University (UK), and has extensive experience of developing business around the incubation and licensing of Intellectual Property.

Donald Monro is Emeritus Professor of Information Systems at the University of Bath, England, where has held a chair since 1991. After taking a Masters degree at the University of Toronto, he worked in the aeronautical industry before moving to the UK to study for the PhD degree at Imperial College, London (ICL). Since then, Prof Monro has made his career in academic research and teaching, becoming Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at ICL, before moving to Bath in 1991.

A long interest in digital information systems brought him early inventions in the fields of laser printing and fingerprint recognition. He is an acknowledged expert in wavelet transforms, and has many patents in methods of digital video and audio compression, as well as current research interests in more general aspects of signal and image processing. Since late 2003, Prof Monro has been applying his expertise in image processing and pattern recognition to iris biometrics and issues related to improving the real-world performance of this particular facet of auto identification technology.