Annual Report 2010

Employees

Fredrik believes in the future

Fredrik Rosqvist works as an algorithm specialist in the research and development department. He came to Precise Biometrics as a twenty-nine year old, and was given a lot of responsibility right from the start.

What does an algorithm specialist do?

Two parts are fundamental in biometric technology. The first is extraction of data from an image of a fingerprint. The second is matching the extracted data with another set of data. I work a lot with the development of both parts.

So three years ago you were put into a bit of tight spot straight away?

You could say that, me along with three others, who started in the research department at the same time. It was a challenge because the department was undergoing some big changes at the time. We were given a lot of responsibility and they expected a lot of us.

Did your education help?

It was one the deciding factors when I took this job. I have studied at the Lund Institute of Technology as an image analyst, and in my last job as a software developer for mobile phones I couldn't put my specialist knowledge to much use. Here I’m working with improving the performance of fingerprint analysis so that you get the best possible identification, and so that the algorithms take up the least possible memory space and are as fast as possible.

What does your working day look like?

There is a lot of variety. Our projects might be initiated by a product manager or a seller who has come up with an idea for product development, but it also happens that we might see potential for further improvement ourselves, which we then go on to present. We are a small company where there is close cooperation between the departments, so you feel that you get the opportunity to contribute.

What does the future look like?

I think it’s going to be really exciting to watch our future development. We are at a stage where we have put in a lot of effort and we are all hoping that what we have done is going to bear fruit.