This month's survey will focus on the growing use of biometrics in health care applications. It
will consider healthcare applications in which biometrics have been deployed successfully …

While the term biometrics may connote high technology, it simply stands for the concept of
recognizing a human being. Today, we use technology to automate the measurements of …

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 …

Scherer provides a brief history of biometrics and then each of the most common biometric
technologies. Advantages and disadvantages to these technologies, as well as, equipment …

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 …

This chapter addresses the history, current status, and future developments of
standardization efforts in the field of biometrics. The need for standards is established while …

When considering the use of biometrics it can be difficult to determine which option is the
best. This is largely due to the fact that there is no perfect biometric solution. Each one has …

Biometrics-based authentication and identification are emerging as the most reliable method
to authenticate and identify individuals. Biometrics requires that the person to be identified …