Iris recognition in non-ideal imaging conditions

P Li, H Ma - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper studies the iris recognition problem in the degraded iris images captured in non-
ideal imaging conditions. In these circumstances iris recognition becomes challenging …

Evaluation of biometric systems

M El-Abed, C Charrier - New Trends and Developments in Biometrics, 2012 - hal.science
Biometrics is considered as a promising solution among traditional methods based on" what
we own"(such as a key) or" what we know"(such as a password). It is based on" what we …

Encoding local image patterns using Riesz transforms: With applications to palmprint and finger-knuckle-print recognition

L Zhang, H Li - Image and Vision Computing, 2012 - Elsevier
Biometrics authentication is an effective method for automatically recognizing a person's
identity with high confidence. It is well recognized that in biometric systems feature extraction …

Multimodal cancelable biometrics

PP Paul, M Gavrilova - 2012 IEEE 11th international conference …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multimodal biometric systems have emerged as highly successful new approach to combat
problems of unimodal biometric system such as intraclass variability, interclass similarity …

Influence of skin diseases on fingerprint recognition

M Drahansky, M Dolezel, J Urbanek… - BioMed Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
There are many people who suffer from some of the skin diseases. These diseases have a
strong influence on the process of fingerprint recognition. People with fingerprint diseases …

Technology in policing: Experiences, obstacles and police needs

B Custers - Computer law & security review, 2012 - Elsevier
Increasing efforts are made by police forces all over the world to optimize the use of
technology in policing and remove any obstacles as new and existing technologies provide …

A comparison of imputation methods for handling missing scores in biometric fusion

Y Ding, A Ross - Pattern Recognition, 2012 - Elsevier
Multibiometric systems, which consolidate or fuse multiple sources of biometric information,
typically provide better recognition performance than unimodal systems. While fusion can be …

Biometric authentication via oculomotor plant characteristics

OV Komogortsev, A Karpov, LR Price… - 2012 5th IAPR …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel biometrics approach that performs authentication via the internal non-visible
anatomical structure of an individual human eye is proposed and evaluated. To provide …

Multispectral palmprint recognition using a quaternion matrix

X Xu, Z Guo, C Song, Y Li - Sensors, 2012 - mdpi.com
Palmprints have been widely studied for biometric recognition for many years. Traditionally,
a white light source is used for illumination. Recently, multispectral imaging has drawn …

On mixing fingerprints

A Othman, A Ross - IEEE Transactions on Information …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work explores the possibility of mixing two different fingerprints, pertaining to two
different fingers, at the image level in order to generate a new fingerprint. To mix two …