Open Data Service

Biometrics Laboratory

Photograph of Building 1 at the University of Southampton (thumbnail). — © 2010 François-Xavier Beckers. Photograph made available under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ license.

The lab is used primarily for collecting biometric data. We acquire images of a walking subject, the subject`s face and the subject`s ear. (We pioneered using gait as a biometric and were amongst the first to show that people can be recognised by their ear shape.) The gait images are multiview and acquired in controlled lighting, enabling 3D reconstruction of the walking subject acquired again in controlled lighting; the face images are acquired as the subject walks towards the camera; the ear image is single shot acquired using a flash. The background is patterned chromakey, allowing calibration and matteing.

Contact

NIXON, MARK - +442380593542

Information

RCUK Costed:: No
School/Dept:: School of Electronics & Computer Science
Building:: Building 1

If you have additions or corrections to a facility or equipment entry please contact your Faculty Finance Team.

Get the Data

You can download the raw data used to create this page:

TTL - RDF/Turtle file
RDF - RDF/XML file
RDF.HTML - HTML visualisation of raw data

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

The following open datasets were used to build this page:

Facilities and Equipment