About
Professor Ferryman is a computer scientist and leads the Computational Vision Group within the Department of Computer Science, School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences (SMPCS), University of Reading. His current research interests include multimodal biometrics, automated video surveillance and benchmarking. He is the author of more than 100 scientific publications. He has participated in a wide range of UK and EU funded research programmes with a focus on border security including coordination of the recent EU PROTECT project on exploration of current and future use of biometrics in border security. Professor Ferryman is a member of the British Computer Society and has acted as the Director of both the British Machine Vision Association and the Security Information Technology Consortium. Prof. Ferryman is an advisor to the UK Government and European Commission on border security and is the Turing Institute academic liaison for the university. Since 2000, he has been a Co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance.