Evaluating the efficiency of a night-time, middle-range infrared sensor for applications in human detection and recognition

T Bourlai, J Von Dollen, N Mavridis… - … , modeling, and testing …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In law enforcement and security applications, the acquisition of face images is critical in
producing key trace evidence for the successful identication of potential threats. In this work …

Human ear detection in the thermal infrared spectrum

A Abaza, T Bourlai - Thermosense: Thermal Infrared …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper the problem of human ear detection in the thermal infrared (IR) spectrum is
studied in order to illustrate the advantages and limitations of the most important steps of ear …

Knowme: An energy-efficient multimodal body area network for physical activity monitoring

G Thatte, M Li, S Lee, A Emken, S Narayanan… - ACM Transactions on …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
The use of biometric sensors for monitoring an individual's health and related behaviors,
continuously and in real time, promises to revolutionize healthcare in the near future. In an …

[PDF][PDF] Multimodal biometric-based secured authentication system using steganography

B Shanthini, S Swamynathan - Journal of Computer Science, 2012 - Citeseer
Problem statement: The main challenge in the design of a security system for high security
mobile ad OC network is how to prevent the attacks against data modification and …

Rank level integration of face based biometrics

A Kumar, M Hanmandlu… - 2012 Ninth International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the integration of two modalities: facial thermograms and ear,
extracted from the same face, by using rank level fusion scheme. The first modality consists …

A rotation and scale invariant technique for ear detection in 3D

S Prakash, P Gupta - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a technique for automatic ear detection from 3D profile face range
images. The proposed technique localizes ear by using inherent structural details of the ear …

Multimodal biometric authentication based on iris pattern and pupil light reflex

V Yano, A Zimmer, LL Ling - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biometrics-based authentication is a method of personal identification that has some
advantages over the password and object-based ones, mainly for the user, who doesn't …

Template level concatenation of iris and fingerprint in multimodal biometric identification systems

RN Kankrale, SD Sapkal - International Journal of Electronics …, 2012 - search.proquest.com
The basic aim of a biometric identification system is to discriminate automatically between
subjects in a reliable and dependable way, according to a specific-target application …

Can contactless fingerprints be compared to existing database?

A Pillai, S Mil'shtein - 2012 IEEE Conference on Technologies …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The major development of fingerprint technology in the form of wet-ink fingerprinting was
initiated and improved for forensic applications by Scotland Yard about 100 years ago. In …

Multibiometric: Feature level fusion using FKP multi-instance biometric

H AlMahafzah, M Imran, HS Sheshadri - arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0818, 2012 - arxiv.org
This paper proposed the use of multi-instance feature level fusion as a means to improve the
performance of Finger Knuckle Print (FKP) verification. A log-Gabor filter has been used to …