About the session
Despite the fact that increasing numbers of governments and companies are turning to biometrics, a gap often remains between what happens in the research laboratory and what is required to turn good ideas into practical systems. Encouragingly, there are already some good links between academia and the biometrics industry, and there is a healthy track record of innovative, fast-growing companies spinning out from universities in the UK and elsewhere. However, opportunities are still being missed for closer collaboration. In this discussion, the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed research journal "IET Biometrics", along with colleagues from academia and industry, considers whether biometrics is a done deal - with much of the technology now finished, where the future real innovation will take place, and whether the research and industrial communities can really work together in the years ahead.
