Pawel (nederst til venstre) og bedømmelseskomiteen under hans disputas via Zoom. / Pawel (left corner) and the assessment comittee during his defence via Zoom.

Pawel Grzegorz Drozdowski defended his thesis entitled «Efficient privacy-preserving biometric identification in large-scale multibiometric systems».

Nowadays, biometrics find application as an integral component of identity management systems. The recent rapid growth of size and popularity of such systems has prompted research into technologies which support efficient, secure, and accurate processing of large amounts of biometric data.

The goal of this thesis is development of computationally efficient algorithms and data structures specifically for biometric identification (1:N search). The methods proposed in the thesis facilitate real-time search queries on large biometric datasets, while simultaneously assuring biometric data protection and incorporating multi-biometric information fusion.

Pawel carried out his work at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology.

Assessment committee

• Associate professor Vitomir Štruc, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Associate Professor Hugo Pedro Proença, Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior, Portugal 
• Member and administrator: Associate Professor Sule Yildirim Yayilgan, Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, NTNU in Gjøvik, Norway

Congratulations!