John Daugman | |
---|---|
Born | February 17, 1954 |
Died | June 11, 2024 | (aged 70)
Citizenship | British and American |
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, PhD) |
Known for |
iris recognition algorithm[1] |
Awards |
|
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | |
Website | www |
John Gustav Daugman OBE FREng (February 17, 1954 – June 11, 2024) was a British-American professor of computer vision and pattern recognition at the University of Cambridge. His major research contributions have been in computational neuroscience, pattern recognition, and in computer vision with the original development of wavelet methods for image encoding and analysis. He invented the IrisCode, a 2D Gabor wavelet-based iris recognition algorithm that is the basis of all publicly deployed automatic iris recognition systems and which has registered more than 1.5 billion persons worldwide in government ID programs.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
iris
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).