Biometric features are increasingly used for authentication and identification purposes in a
broad variety of institutional and commercial systems. The large diffusion of e-government, e …

Indeed, biometric systems enable the automatic recognition of a person through the
measurement of distinguishing physiological or behavioural traits. For this reason, they are …

We are at the wake of an epochal revolution, the Information Revolution. The Information
Revolution has been accompanied by the rise of a new commodity, digital data, which is …

The Internet has consolidated itself as a very powerful platform that has changed the
communication and business way. Nowadays, the number of users navigating through …

In the XXI st century, there is a strong interest on privacy issues. Technology permits
obtaining personal information without individuals' consent, computers make it feasible to …

Compared with traditional techniques used to establish the identity of a person, biometric
systems offer a greater confidence level that the authenticated individual is not …

Biometric techniques, such as fingerprint verification, iris or face recognition, retina analysis
and hand‐written signature verification, are increasingly becoming basic elements of …

The use of biometric traits for security and secure applications (including personal
identification, access control, forensics applications, e-commerce, e-government, and e …

By now, biometric systems find already home in a broad range of commercial and
institutional applications. They are typically employed to authenticate users before allowing …

Biometric traits are being used since thousands of years–from prehistoric men in the
Chauvet cave to the EU officials designing smart borders. They allow for identifying and …