Over the past five years, the Biometrics Industry has leaped forward. It is predicted that it will
be one of the great growth technologies of the new millennium. Given the ever-increasing …

Another report by Future Market Insights [2] predicts that the market will undergo a double-
digit growth rate by 2019 from its previous global market value of $6357.7 million in 2012. e …

Prevailing methods of human identification based on credentials (identification documents
and PIN) are not able to meet the growing demands for stringent security in applications …

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

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in the demand for the usage of behavioral and
physiological characteristics of humans for e-security and forensics applications. The …

Background The interest in biometric recognition technologies has grown significantly in the
last four decades, and academic as well as corporate research units have devoted a lot of …

Conclusion Biometric standards are in place to support the widespread adoption of
biometrics. The industry is aware of the need and importance of standards and was very …

In this paper we shall introduce a taxonomy of biometric methods continuing thereby our
previous research on selected segments of biometrics. We show how our previously …

Chapter 7 BIOMETRICS Page 1 Chapter 7 BIOMETRICS Overview and Applications Ishwar K
Sethi Intelligent Information Engineering Lab, Department of Computer Science and …