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 …

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 …

Systems employing biometric traits for people authentication and identification are
witnessing growing popularity due to the unique and indissoluble link between any …

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 …

An emerging direction for authenticating people is the adoption of biometric authentication
systems. Biometric credentials are becoming increasingly popular as a means of …

Privacy-enhancing technologies are technologies that implement fundamental data
protection principles. With respect to biometric recognition, different types of privacy …

The rapid growth of smart technologies and services has intensified the challenges
surrounding identity authentication techniques. Biometric credentials are increasingly being …

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 …

Many varieties of systems require some reliable recognition system that gives the identity of
a person. There are many applications that need the identity of a person to operate such as …

One of the inherent properties of biometrics is the ability to use unique features for
identification and verification of users. The usable biometric features in humans are limited …