Shahzad Ahmed Memon
Email shahzad.memon@brunel.ac.uk
Office: TD303, Tower D
Phone: +44(0)1895 267083
PhD Supervisor: Prof. Wamadeva Balachandran (Bala)
Research Area: Nano-sensors and Fingerprint Biometrics
Sponsoring Organization: University of Sindh, Pakistan
Academic Qualification:
- BSc(Hon) Electronics Institute of Information and Communication Technology, University of Sindh, Pakistan
- MSc Electronics Institute of Information and Communication Technology, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, Carbon Nanotubes Applications, Fingerprint Biometrics, Multimedia Design, Novel ICT System design and communication technology.
PhD Research:
Fingerprint biometrics sensors are extensively used for various applications and existing sensors have some limitations in acquiring very reliable latent images of the ridges and valleys. In the past twenty years, numerous technologies have been introduced in fingerprint sensors such as optical, pressure, capacitive, thermal, acoustic and radiofrequency. The performance of many existing fingerprint sensors is subject to spoofing (fake and dummy), and identification and authentication is limited to 85%. Various improvements to the existing technologies are still taking place such as size, cost, physical state and resolution; however, ‘liveness’ is still a common issue with these technologies.
The main aims of this research are:
- Development of a novel nanotechnology based fingerprint sensing technique based on electrical detection method
- Detect the liveness from finger tip placed on fingerprint sensor
- Alleviate anti-spoofing attack on fingerprint sensor
- Improve the False Acceptance Rate (FAR) and False Rejection Rate (FRR)
Fingerprint Sensing System
Fingertip Skin
Concept of Nanotechnology based Fingerprint Sensor
Publications
- Memon, S., Manivannan, N. and Balachandran, W., “Liveness in Fingerprint Images by Active Pore Detection Technique”. Extended Abstract (First Prize) IEEE-SED-ResCon 2011-School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University,UK
- Automatic active pore detection in fingertip images”, ICCESSE 2011 : International Conference on Computer, Electrical,and Systems Sciences, and Engineering 2011. July 2011
- Manivannan, N., Memon, S., Boulgouris, N. and Balachandran, W.,” Automatic active pore detection in fingertip images”, ICCESSE 2011 : International Conference on Computer, Electrical,and Systems Sciences, and Engineering 2011. July 2011
- Manivannan, N., Memon, S., Boulgouris, N. and Balachandran, W., “Automated Fingertip Active Sweat Pores Detection Using HCFA: Theory, Results and Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (submitted)
- Manivannan, N., Memon, S. and Balachandran, W., "Automatic detection of active sweat pores of fingerprint using high-pass and correlation filtering," Electronics Letters, vol.46, no.18, pp.1268-1269, September 2010.
- Memon S. , Balachandran W. “Modelling of Current sensing Micro-tip” IAS Annual Meeting-2010, Houston, Texas, USA
- Memon S. , Balachandran W. (2010) “Modelling of Current sensing Micro-tip” Nanotechnology 2010 conference, Anaheim, California, USA
- Memon S. , Balachandran W. (2009) “ Fingerprint Sensing: Issues and Solutions” 2nd SED Research Student Conference. RESCON-09, Brunel University, London
- Memon S., Sepasian M., Balachandran W. (2008) “Review of Finger Print Sensing Technologies” 12th IEEE International Multi-topic Conference, Bahria University, Karachi Pakistan
Featured Articles:
- Manivannan, N., Memon, S., Balachandran, W., "Security breaks a sweat," Electronics Letters, vol.46, no.18, pp.1241-1242, September 2010 (Invited).
Posters:
- Memon S. , Mannivan N., Balachandran W. (2011) “Novel Active Pore Based Liveness Detection Technique For Fingerprint Biometrics” IEEE-SED-ResCon 2011-School of Engineering and Design,Brunel University,UK
- Memon S. , Noor A., Mannivan N., Boulgouris N. Balachandran W. (2010) IET, Savoy Place, October, 2010
- Memon S. , Balachandran W. (2010) “ Modelling of Sensing Micro-tip ” Nanotechnology 2010, June , Anaheim, California, USA
- Memon S. , Balachandran W.(2009) “Fingerprint Sensing: Issues and Solutions” 2nd SED Research Student Conference (RESCON-09), June 2009, Brunel University, London.
- Memon S. , Balachandran W. (2009) “ Nanotechnology Based Fingerprint Sensor” Brunel Post Graduate Poster Conference, May 2009, Graduate School, Brunel University, London
