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Brief Audit of Post-pandemic Biometrics

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Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges (ICPR 2022)

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This paper offers a brief audit of biometric technology in the post-pandemic realm. To accomplish the audit objectives, we map a general biometric-enabled system concept onto the Emergency Management Cycle (EMC), a core doctrine to address disasters. This mapping helps identify the technology-societal gaps unveiled during the most recent pandemic. We focus on auditing the biometric-enabled watchlist for e-borders and e-health systems. In the biometric-enabled systems, fairness becomes of critical importance, while the related concept of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is well suited for the generalization of fairness in biometrics. We also emphasize the need to update the biometric courses for training future technology developers.

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This project was partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada through the grant “Biometric intelligent interfaces”, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada via NFRF project “Emergency Management Cycle-Centric R&D: From National Prototyping to Global Implementation”.

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    Sudarsini Tekkam Gnanasekar, Olha Shaposhnyk, Illia Yankovyi & Svetlana Yanushkevich

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Gnanasekar, S.T., Shaposhnyk, O., Yankovyi, I., Yanushkevich, S. (2023). Brief Audit of Post-pandemic Biometrics. In: Rousseau, JJ., Kapralos, B. (eds) Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges. ICPR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37731-0_44

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