Marios Savvides

I'm Junie Dome.

My guest today is Professor Marios Savvides, the Bossa Nova Robotics professor of artificial intelligence and the founder and director of the CyLab Biometric Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

Welcome, Marios.

You're doing amazing work in the field of vision and facial recognition, as well as other things.

Could you explain the nexus of your research and what you hope it can do in the foreseeable future, maybe five years? We won't go beyond that.

We call that gait, right? Those are all...

Those are softer biometrics, and by softer we mean that they may not be able to uniquely identify you in, you know, in a crowd of a million or a database of a million, but there, there, there is a signal that adds.

So if I know how you walk, and I have a partial face, and I've m- matched your ear, then I can say, "Oh, you know what? I think that's Marios 'cause that's how he walks, and that's th- that looks like his ear.