Learn IT - Books tags biometrics

3D Imaging for Safety and Security (Computational Imaging and Vision)

Springer, 2007

The past decades have seen significant improvements in 3D imaging where the related techniques and technologies have advanced to a mature state. These exciting developments have sparked increasing interest in industry and academia in the challenges and opportunities afforded by 3D sensing. As a consequence, the emerging area of safety and security...

Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet

No Starch Press, 2003

This offbeat, non-technical book looks at what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself. This edition also covers rootkits, spyware, web bugs, identity theft, hacktivism, wireless hacking (wardriving), biometrics, and firewalls.

WARNING: This book is not to be used for hacking into government computers, shutting...

Human Ear Recognition by Computer (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

Springer, 2008

Biometrics deals with recognition of individuals based on their physiological or behavioral characteristics. The human ear is a new feature in biometrics that has several merits over the more common face, fingerprint and iris biometrics. Unlike the fingerprint and iris, it can be easily captured from a distance without a fully cooperative...

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...

Advances in Information Processing and Protection

Springer, 2007

This book contains a selection of the best papers given at the Advanced Computer Systems Conference in October 2006 in Poland. The book is partitioned into four topical areas:

The Artificial Intelligence section includes papers on Humatronics, Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, Cell, Genetic and Probabilistic Algorithms, Incomplete Data and Similarity...

Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield

IBM Press, 2008

A Practical, Start-to-Finish Approach to Managing, Evolving, and Transforming Legacy IT Systems

For every IT executive, manager, architect, program leader, project leader, and lead analyst

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Handbook of Remote Biometrics: for Surveillance and Security (Advances in Pattern Recognition)

Springer, 2009

This comprehensive and innovative handbook covers aspects of biometrics from the perspective of recognizing individuals at a distance, in motion, and under a surveillance scenario. Features: Starts with a thorough introductory chapter; Provides topics from a range of different perspectives offered by an international collection of leading...

Securing Biometrics Applications

Springer, 2007

Biometrics is becoming increasingly common in establishments that require high security such as state security and financial sectors. The increased threat to national security by terrorists has led to the explosive popularity of biometrics. A number of biometric devices are now available to capture biometric measurements such as fingerprints, palm,...

Information Processing and Security Systems

Springer, 2005

Information Processing and Security Systems is a collection of forty papers that were originally presented at an international multi-conference on Advanced Computer Systems (ACS) and Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM) held in Elk, Poland. This volume describes the latest developments in...

Behavioral Biometrics: A Remote Access Approach

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

With the advent of the internet as a medium for performing business transactions, the need for a secure communication channel has never been more paramount. The study of behavioral biometrics - the verification and/or identification of individuals based on the way they provide information to an authentication system - originated from the need...

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...

Imaging for Forensics and Security: From Theory to Practice (Signals and Communication Technology)

Springer, 2009

Imaging for Forensics and Security: From Theory to Practice provides a detailed analysis of new imaging and pattern recognition techniques for the understanding and deployment of biometrics and forensic techniques as practical solutions to increase security. It contains a collection of the recent advances in the technology ranging from...

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