Biometrics systems are currently attracting a great deal of attention for very obvious reasons.
We need as much literature on the subject as we can get. This book brings together a …

A total of 78 papers were submitted for consideration for the special issue. Those that
appear in this special issue result from a careful review process and consideration of timing …

Some biometric systems perform well, and others perform poorly. This chapter examines in
detail the methods for establishing and reporting system accuracy. The manner in which a …

Nowadays, biometrics is an important technological area receiving continuously growing
interest from academia, industry, government, and the general public, due to the criticality …

The use of computers to recognize humans from physical and behavioral traits dates back to
the digital computer evolution of the 1960s. But even after decades of research and …

In this paper, we provide an overview of the fundamentals of biometric identification,
together with a description of the main biometric technologies currently in use, all of them …

In this chapter, we give an overall perception to biometrics technologies and systems. First,
the background of biometrics is introduced in Section 1.1. After some basic concepts …

Biometric research centers on five fundamental areas: data collection, signal processing,
decision-making, transmission, and storage. Traditionally, research occurred in subsets of …

Biometrics is an automated method of recognizing a person based on her physiological or
behavioral characteristics, and is potentially a powerful and reliable method for personal …

The book to which I was asked by the editors to write a foreword is an interesting collection
of contributions. It presents the extended versions of the authors' works already introduced at …