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Andrzej Drygajlo
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office(s):
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phone(s): [+41 21 69] 34328
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BIOGRAPHY
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Andrzej Drygajlo, head of the Speech Processing and Biometrics Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, conducts research on technological, methodological and legal aspects of biometrics for security and forensic applications.
In 1993 he created the EPFL Speech Processing Group (GTP) and then the EPFL Speech Processing and Biometrics Group (GTPB) and Biometrics Centre Lausanne. Dr. Drygajlo, has a wide experience in conducting co-ordinated research projects in speech processing and biometrics. Currently he conducts research and teaching in biometrics, man-machine communication and speech processing at EPFL and in School of Criminal Sciences (ESC) at the University of Lausanne.
He participates in and coordinates numerous national and international projects and is member of various scientific committees. Among these research projects the most relevant are European projects: the Network of Excellence BIOSECURE, COST 275 project "Biometrics-Based Recognition of People over the Internet" and its follow-up "Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards" and national projects: SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) projects “ABID: Applying Biometrics to Identity Documents: Technological, Legal and Security Challenges and Implications” and “Autonomous Interactive Systems for Multimodal Biometric Authentication”, NCCR IM2 (National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) devoted to “Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM)2) project “Multimodal Biometric Authentication with Reliability Measures”, SER (State Secretariat for Education and Research) project "ROBINS - Robust Biometric Identification in Networked Society", as well as BCV (Banque Cantonal Vaudoise) founded research project “Multimodal Biometrics for Identity Documents”. Recently, he has been elected chair of the European COST 2101 Action "Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart cards (BIDS)". The main objective of the Action is to investigate novel technologies for unsupervised multimodal biometric authentication systems using a new generation of biometrics-enabled identity documents and smart cards. In 2007 Dr. Drygajlo was nominated by the Swiss government a member of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF), Working Group on Identification of People and Assets. Since 2010 he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security.
The aim of research projects in the domain of biometrics is to develop a formulation of the basic concepts of robust biometric recognition, in particular face, fingerprint, speaker, and dynamic signature recognition over data networks in the context of multi-modal feature extraction and statistical modelling, and to make such systems computationally efficient. Dr. Drygajlo works on various theoretical and practical issues concerned with estimation of quality and reliability of biometric data, and how such estimates may be used in biometric recognition algorithms. This approach is also adapted to the multi-modal biometric data integration.
Dr. Drygajlo has been advisor of numerous Ph.D. theses. In October 2007 the EBF European Biometric Research Award 2007 was awarded to one of his Ph.D. students Mr Krzysztof Kryszczuk He is the author/co-author of more than 100 research publications, including several book chapters, together with his own book. He is a member of the IEEE, EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) and ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) professional groups.
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Research Associate