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Biometric User Authentication for IT Security: From Fundamentals to Handwriting (Advances in Information Security)

Springer, 2005

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...

Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities

National Academy Press, 2010

Biometric recognition--the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristic--is promoted as a way to help identify terrorists, provide better control of access to physical facilities and financial accounts, and increase the efficiency of access to services and their utilization. Biometric...

Introduction to Biometrics

Springer, 2011

A number of crucial societal applications like international border crossing, electronic commerce, and welfare disbursement require reliable person recognition systems. Traditional person authentication methods based on passwords and identity documents often fail to meet the stringent security and performance demands of these...

Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007

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...

Face Biometrics for Personal Identification: Multi-Sensory Multi-Modal Systems (Signals and Communication Technology)

Springer, 2007

From time immemorial, the security realm and personal identification task had shown progress by employing technological means like secret knowledge as passwords and Personal Identification Numbers, and by using personal possessions as identity cards and Radio Frequency Identification chips. As opposed to these means which are...

Biometrics for Network Security

Prentice Hall, 2003

The complete guide to implementing biometric security solutions for your network

Network security has become the latter-day equivalent of oxymoronic terms like "jumbo shrimp" and "exact estimate." Newspaper headlines are routinely peppered with incidents of hackers thwarting the security put forth by...

Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society

Springer, 1999

Determining the identity of a person is becoming critical in our vastly interconnected
information society. As increasing number of biometrics-based identification systems
are being deployed for many civilian and forensic applications, biometrics and its
applications have evoked considerable interest. The current state of affairs is...

Biometric Authentication: First International Conference, ICBA 2004, Hong Kong, China, July 15-17, 2004

Springer, 2004

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the demand for biometric-based authentication solutions for a number of applications. With significant advances in biometric technology and an increase in the number of applications incorporating biometrics, it is essential that we bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as...

Handbook of Biometrics

Springer, 2007

Biometric recognition, or simply Biometrics, is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country. Biometric systems rely on the use of physical or behavioral traits, such as fingerprints, face, voice and hand geometry, to establish the identity of an individual. The deployment of...

Iris Biometric Model for Secured Network Access

CRC Press, 2013

In the last few years, biometric techniques have proven their ability to provide secure access to shared resources in various domains. Furthermore, software agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown their efficiency in resolving critical network problems.

Iris Biometric Model for Secured Network Access proposes a...

Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

Springer, 2009

From the reviews:

"...a useful reference for all biometric security professionals and researchers. The four coauthors have a distinguished combination of academic and professional experience....Overall, readers will be pleased with the style and substance of this book." -Computing Reviews

"This is a comprehensive reviews...

Advanced Pattern Recognition Technologies with Applications to Biometrics (Premier Reference Source)

Medical Information Science Reference, 2008

With the increasing concerns on security breaches and transaction fraud, highly reliable and convenient personal verification and identification technologies are more and more requisite in our social activities and national services. Biometrics, used to recognize the identity of an individual, are gaining ever-growing popularity in an extensive...

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