InTech, 2011. — 206 p. From time immemorial, we as humans have been intrigued by, perplexed by, and entertained by observing and analyzing ourselves and the natural world around us. Science and technology have evolved to a point where we can empirically record a measure of a biological or behavioral feature and use it for recognizing patterns, trends, and or discrete phenomena,...
Springer, 2011. — 216 p. It seems almost bizarre to consider that contemporary biometric technology, which many still see as very advanced, even within the context of fast-moving Information Technology, has been with us for over 20 years. At first glance, it may seem to the casual observer that little has changed within that window of time. After all, we are still speaking of...
2nd ed. — Springer, 2015. — 238 p. — ISBN: 1447167163. This practically-focused text presents a hands-on guide to making biometric technology work in real-life scenarios. Extensively revised and updated, this new edition takes a fresh look at what it takes to integrate biometrics into wider applications. An emphasis is placed on the importance of a complete understanding of the...
New York: Apple Academic Press, 2014. - 288 p. This book provides a broad understanding of the main computational techniques used for anthropometric data, focusing specifically on data for female athletes. A number of data analysis techniques are introduced along with the application of such in a sports setting. These techniques will have potential for application in several...
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-61657-5 This timely text/reference presents a broad overview of advanced deep learning architectures for learning effective feature representation for perceptual and biometrics-related tasks. The text offers a showcase of cutting-edge research on the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in face,...
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. — 312 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-61657-5 This timely text/reference presents a broad overview of advanced deep learning architectures for learning effective feature representation for perceptual and biometrics-related tasks. The text offers a showcase of cutting-edge research on the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in face,...
Springer, 2014. — 121 p. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the developments in this important area of biometrics, in addition to describing some related work of the authors in the use of the complex wavelet transform. The book has examined in detail different aspects of iris analysis, where the authors review the state of the art in the field, and present their own...
Wiley, 2009. – 763 p. – ISBN: 0470247827, 0470522348, 9780470247822 An in-depth examination of the cutting edge of biometrics This book fills a gap in the literature by detailing the recent advances and emerging theories, methods, and applications of biometric systems in a variety of infrastructures. Edited by a panel of experts, it provides comprehensive coverage of:...
Springer, 2013. — 416 p. The first book of its kind devoted entirely to the subject, the Handbook of Iris Recognition introduces the reader to this exciting, rapidly developing, technology of today and tomorrow. Blending insights from the editors’ own work, and exploiting their broad overview of the field, this authoritative collection introduces the reader to the state of the...
Routledge, 2018. — 314 p. — ISBN: 978-1498761246. The Science of Biometrics: Security Technology for Identity Verification covers the technical aspects of iris and facial recognition, focusing primarily on the mathematical and statistical algorithms that run the verification and identification processes in these two modalities. Each chapter begins with a review of the...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018. — 449 p. — (IET Security Series 08). — ISBN: 978-1-78561-225-1. The IET Book Series in Advances in Biometrics Hand-based biometrics identifies users by unique features in their hands, such as fingerprints, palmprints, hand geometry, and finger and palm vein patterns. This book explores the range of technologies and methods...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018. — 450 p. — (IET Security Series 08). — ISBN: 978-1-78561-224-4. Hand-based biometrics identifies users by unique features in their hands, such as fingerprints, palmprints, hand geometry, and finger and palm vein patterns. This book explores the range of technologies and methods under development and in use for hand-based...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. - 320 p. - This book introduces readers to the basic concepts, classical approaches, and the newest design, development, and applications of biometrics. It also provides a glimpse of future designs and research directions in biometrics. In addition, it discusses some latest concerns and issues in this area. Suitable for a wide range of readers, the...
CRC Press, 2013. — 215 p. The rapid evolution of technology in the computer world has made securing access to confidential data a very important issue in terms of research. This technology is likely to evolve in various architectures. Each architecture has its own functionality and its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, the transition from a centralized to a...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0-198809-10-7. We live in a society which is increasingly interconnected, in which communication between individuals is mostly mediated via some electronic platform, and transactions are often carried out remotely. In such a world, traditional notions of trust and confidence in the identity of...
New York University Press, 2011. — 276 p. Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the human face — to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another — commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and...
Springer, 2014. — 233 p. Biometric systems consist of devices, algorithms, and procedures used to recognize individuals or classes of individuals based on their physical or behavioral characteristics, called biometric traits. These systems are particularly relevant to security (such as access control and government applications) and are increasingly a part of daily life....
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017. — 490 p. — (IET Security Series 03) — ISBN: 1785610953. Mobile biometrics aim to achieve conventional functionality and robustness while also supporting portability and mobility, bringing greater convenience and opportunity for deployment in a wide range of operational environments. Achieving these aims brings new challenges,...
Springer, 2011. — 328 p. — ISBN: 0387773258. Biometric recognition, or simply biometrics, is the science of establishing the identity of a person based on physical or behavioral attributes. It is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from securely accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country. While the deployment of large-scale biometric systems in both...
Springer, 2016. — 422 p. — ISBN: 331947300X. This book highlights recent research advances on biometrics using new methods such as deep learning, nonlinear graph embedding, fuzzy approaches, and ensemble learning. Included are special biometric technologies related to privacy and security issues, such as cancellable biometrics and soft biometrics. The book also focuses on...
Springer, 2020. — 322 p. — (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning). — ISBN: 9783030325824, EISBN: 9783030325831. This book highlights new advances in biometrics using Deep Learning toward a deeper and broader background, deeming it “Deep Biometrics”. The book aims to highlight recent developments in biometrics using semi-supervised and unsupervised methods such as Deep...
Richard Jiang, Chang-Tsun Li, Danny Crookes, Weizhi Meng, Christophe Rosenberger. — Springer, 2020. — 320 p. — (Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning). — ISBN: 978-3-030-32582-4. This book highlights new advances in biometrics using deep learning toward a more profound and broader background, deeming it “Deep Biometrics”. The book aims to highlight recent developments in...
CRC Press, 2014. — 340 p. The uniqueness of the physiological and behavioral characteristics of human beings is used to facilitate the identification or verification process, and it always results in correct classification. However, the distinctive evidence obtained from an individual does not guarantee a 100% matching be performed to the biometric characteristics corresponding...
World Scientific, 2012. — 500 p. — ISBN: 9814287849, 978-9814287845. Biometrics is the study of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based on one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. After decades of research activities, biometrics, as a recognized scientific discipline, has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery to meet the...
Springer, 2016. — 247 p. The last two decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of stakeholders of biometric technologies. The quality of the technologies has increased due to an improvement in underlying data processing and sensor technologies. A growing and healthy marketplace has emerged, while the number of people using, operating, or impacted by these...
Woodhead Publishing, 2011. — 800 p. — ISBN: 0857091093, 9780857091093 Over the past decade, computer supported data analysis by statistical methods has been one of the fastest growth areas in chemometrics, biometrics and other related branches of natural, technical and social sciences. This has been particularly strongly supported by the development of exploratory data...
Springer, 2019. - 286 p. This book addresses biometrics from a biomedical engineering point of view. Divided into five sections, it discusses topics including the influence of pathologies on various biometric modalities (e.g. face, iris, fingerprint), medical and security biometrics, behavioural biometrics, instrumentation, wearable technologies and imaging. The final chapters...
Springer, 2005. — 188 p. — ISBN: 978-0387244242. Biometrics now affect many people's lives, and is the focus of much academic research and commercial development. Gait is one of the most recent biometrics, with its own unique advantages. Gait recognizes people by the way they walk and run, analyzes movement,which in turn implies analyzing sequences of images. This professional...
Springer, 2009. — 414 p. This book would never have existed without the BioSecure Network of Excellence (NoE). This European project, launched in 2004 and that ended in 2007, was partly supported by the European Commission. It grouped 30 partners (all academic but one) from eight countries. Its main objective was to federate the biometric research conducted independently in...
Springer Singapore, 2015. — 116 p. This book presents the state-of-the-art techniques and recent research progress on Ear Biometrics. Among the various physiological traits, the reasons for the ear to gain much attention in recent years are many folds. It has been found to be a reliable biometrics for human verification and identification. Ears are remarkably consistent and...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017. — 498 p. — ISBN10: 1785611682, 13 978-1785611681. Iris recognition technologies for identity management are already deployed globally in several large-scale nationwide biometric projects and are currently entering the mobile market. More recently, periocular recognition has been employed to augment the biometric performance...
Springer, 2019. — 377 p. — (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). — ISBN: 978-3-030-26971-5. This book highlights the field of selfie biometrics, providing a clear overview and presenting recent advances and challenges. It also discusses numerous selfie authentication techniques on mobile devices. Biometric authentication using mobile devices is becoming a...
Springer, 2015. — 141. Biometrics is the science of recognizing individuals on the basis of their physical (such as face, fingerprint, and iris) or behavioural traits (such as voice and gait). It holds a lot of promise over traditional password-based systems, such as PIN and password, therefore revolutionizing the way authentication is done. Biometric applications include...
InTech, 2011, -274 p. Biometric authentication has been widely used for access control and security systems over the past few years. It is the study of the physiological (biometric) and behavioral (soft-biometric) traits of humans which are required to classify them. A general biometric system consists of different modules including single or multi-sensor data acquisition,...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2017. — 236 p. — ISBN: 1498784623, 9781498784627, 9781498784634, 1498784631. Automatic biometrics recognition techniques are increasingly important in corporate and public security systems and have increased in methods due to rapid field development. This book discusses classic behavioral biometrics as well as collects the latest advances in techniques,...
Springer. 2010. — 368 p. ISBN: 1849962014 Biometrics, the science of using physical traits to identify individuals, is playing an increasing role in our security-conscious society and across the globe. Biometric authentication, or bioauthentication, systems are being used to secure everything from amusement parks to bank accounts to military installations. Yet developments in...
Springer, 2019. — 360 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-30435-5. This book provides a framework for robust and novel biometric techniques, along with implementation and design strategies. The theory, principles, pragmatic and modern methods, and future directions of biometrics are presented, along with in-depth coverage of biometric applications in driverless cars, automated and AI-based...
Springer, 2020. — 535 p. — (Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). — ISBN ISBN 978-3-030-27730-7. This handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of biometrics exploiting the shape of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm vein recognition, retina recognition, and sclera...
Elsevier, 2007. — 655 p. Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems is organized into nine parts composed of 30 chapters, including an extensive glossary of biometric terms and acronyms. It discusses the current state-of-the-art in biometric verification/authentication, identification and system design principles. It also provides a step-by-step discussion of how...
CRC Press, 2018. — 150 p. — ISBN: 9781138578234. Deep Learning is now synonymous with applied machine learning. Many technology giants (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM) as well as start-ups are focusing on deep learning-based techniques for data analytics and artificial intelligence. This technology applies quite strongly to biometrics. This book covers topics in deep...
Springer, 2006. — 287 p. Biometric user authentication techniques have evoked an enormous interest by science, industry and society in the recent past. Scientists and developers have constantly pursued the technology for automated determination or confirmation of the identity of subjects based on measurements of physiological or behavioral traits of humans. Many biometric...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018. — 428 p. — (Iet Book Series in Advances in Biometrics). — ISBN10: 1785612077, 13 978-1785612077. The interplay of privacy, security and user-determination is an important consideration in the roll-out of biometric technologies. It brings into play requirements such as privacy of biometric data in systems, communication and...
InTech, 2011, -278 p. Biometrics uses methods for unique recognition of humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. In computer science, particularly, biometrics is used as a form of identity access management and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance. The key objective of the book is to provide...
InTech, 2011, -326 p. Biometric recognition is one of the most widely studied problems in computer science. The use of biometrics techniques, such as face, fingerprints, iris, ears, is a solution for obtaining a secure personal identification. However, the old biometrics identification techniques are out of date. The goal of this book is to provide the reader with the most up...
InTech, 2011, -314 p. In the recent years, a number of recognition and authentication systems based on biometric measurements have been proposed. Algorithms and sensors have been developed to acquire and process many different biometric traits. Moreover, the biometric technology is being used in novel ways, with potential commercial and practical implications to our daily...
InTech, 2012. — 342 p. — ISBN: 9535108597, 9789535108597 The key objective of the book is to keep up with the new technologies on some recent theoretical development as well as new trends of applications in biometrics. The topics covered in this book reflect well both aspects of development. They include the new development in forensic speaker recognition, 3D and thermo face...
Second Edition, ITAvE, 2016. – 342 p. – ISBN: 953510859X. The topics covered in this book reflect well both aspects of development. They include the new development in forensic speaker recognition, 3D and thermo face recognition, finger vein recognition, contact-less biometric system, hand geometry recognition, biometric performance evaluation, multi-biometric template...
World Scientific, 2007, -453 p. Computer Vision and Computer Graphics can be thought of as opposite sides of the same coin. In computer graphics we start, for example, with a three-dimensional model of a face, and we attempt to render or project this model onto a two-dimensional surface to create an image of the face. In computer vision we attempt to do the opposite — we start...
Springer, 2016. — 232 p. Recently, biometrics technology has been one of the hot research topics in the IT field, because of the demands for accurate personal identification or verification to solve security problems in various applications, such as e-commence, Internet banking, access control, immigration, and law enforcement. In particular, after the 911 terrorist attacks,...
Springer – 2006, 818 p. ISBN: 3540311114, 9783540311119 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in January 2006. The book includes 104 revised full papers covering such areas of biometrics as the face, fingerprint, iris, speech and signature, biometric fusion and performance evaluation,...
Idea Group, 2006, -291 p. Personal identification and verification both play a critical role in our society. Today, more and more business activities and work practices are computerized. E-commerce applications, such as e-banking, or security applications, such as building access, demand fast, real-time and accurate personal identification. Traditional knowledge-based or...
Springer, 2013. — 290 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-7400-5 (eBook). Automatic personal authentication using biometric information is becoming more essential in applications of public security, access control, forensics, banking, etc. Many kinds of biometric authentication techniques have been developed based on different biometric characteristics. However, most of the physical...
Kluwer, 2000. — 336. In the modern, automated world, there is an ever-growing need to authenticate and identify individuals. The current technology of using a personal identification numbers (PIN) or password for these purposes hardly meets the requirements of an identification system because one has to remember too many passwords and the password or PIN is very insecure. As a...
Springer, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 3319615440, 13 978-3319615448. This book describes a range of new biometric technologies, such as high-resolution fingerprint, finger-knuckle-print, multi-spectral backhand, 3D fingerprint, tongueprint, 3D ear, and multi-spectral iris technologies. Further, it introduces readers to efficient feature extraction, matching and fusion algorithms,...
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