The development of machines able to autonomously and covertly perform reliable
recognition of human beings is a long-term goal in the biometrics field. Some of the …

To date, no research effort has produced a machine able to autonomously and covertly
perform reliable recognition of human beings. Perhaps, contrary to popular belief, such …

Data, information dimensionality and manifold learning techniques are related issues that
are gaining prominence in biometrics. Problems dealing with large amounts of data often …

The uniqueness of the physiological and behavioral characteristics of human beings is used
to facilitate the identification or verification process, and it always results in correct …

Biometrics is the science of recognizing the identity of a person based on the physical or
behavioral attributes of the individual such as fingerprints, palmprint, face, voice, iris and …

Face recognition performance has improved significantly since the first automatic face
recognition system developed by Kanade. Face detection, facial feature extraction, and …

This book entitled Advances Methods for Human Biometrics reports on recent developments
in the field of biomedical authentication by manifold methods based on biological signals …

Biometric user authentication systems are emerging from a highly specialized domain and
are becoming part of the daily lives of many people all over the world. Until a few years ago …

Biometric systems are the ensemble of devices, procedures, and algorithms for the
automatic recognition of individuals by means of their physiological or behavioral …

Conventional appearance-based face recognition methods usually assume that there are
multiple samples per person (MSPP) available for discriminative feature extraction during …