Abstract: The existence of fake coins dated back thousands of years, and it has become an important topic now due to their proliferation in every country nowadays. This talk is about (a) Pattern Recognition, the backbone of Artificial Intelligence, ways of recognizing different types of patterns and visible objects and coins using image processing and machine learning methodologies, and (b) AI - Artificial Intelligence, a bit of history, theory, and various applications. In this talk, we present their applications and several image measurement methodologies to measure the properties of fake coins automatically. This system consists of feature measurement, 3D analysis, AI and deep learning techniques. For validation, thousands of samples have been tested, and a high confidence level has been achieved. Numerous examples will be demonstrated during this talk.

Biography: Dr. Ching Suen is the Honorary Chair of AI and Pattern Recognition of Concordia University. He is also the Founder and past Director of the world renowned CENPARMI (Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence). He received an M.Sc. degree from the University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. from UBC. He is specialized in the recognition of printed and handwritten characters, document analysis, analysis of facial beauty, and the detection of fake coins. He has been the Principal Investigator or Consultant of 30 industrial projects. Dr. Suen has published 8 conference proceedings, 16 books and more than 630 papers. Dr. Suen is the recipient of numerous awards, including IAPR 2020 King-Sun Fu Prize (highest honour in the field of Pattern Recognition), Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal Award of Excellence (2016), Gold Medal from the University of
Bari (Italy 2012), the IAPR ICDAR Award (2005), the ITAC/NSERC national award (1992 with Nobel Laureate Prof. G. Hinton, $50,000/person), and numerous others.

He is not only the founder of 5 conferences: ICDAR, IWFHR/ICFHR, ICPRAI, and VI, and ICCPOL, but has also organized 20+ international conferences including ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, ICPRAI, ICCPOL. Prof. Suen has supervised 130 graduate students to completion, and guided/hosted 100+ long-term visiting scientists and professors.