Ensuring the confidentiality of private data stored in our technological devices is a
fundamental aspect for protecting our personal and professional information. Authentication …

Systems incorporating biometric technologies have become ubiquitous in personal,
commercial, and governmental identity management applications. Both cooperative (eg …

The proliferation of user-generated content on social media has made opinion mining an
arduous job. As a microblogging platform, Twitter is being used to collect views about …

Online handwritten analysis presents many applications in e-security, signature biometrics
being the most popular but not the only one. Handwriting analysis also has an important set …

The computational workload is one of the key challenges in biometric identification systems.
The naïve retrieval method based on an exhaustive search becomes impractical with the …

Gait recognition is an important biometric method popularly used in video surveillance,
where the task is to identify people at a distance by their walking patterns from video …

Facial recognition technology (FRT) has been widely studied and criticized for its racialising
impacts and its role in the overpolicing of minoritised communities. However, a key aspect of …

Abstract Background Intensive Care Unit (ICU) readmissions in patients with heart failure
(HF) result in a significant risk of death and financial burden for patients and healthcare …

The discriminative ability of geometric features can be well supported by empirical studies in
ear recognition. Recently, a number of methods have been suggested for geometric feature …

In this paper, an approach that makes use of knuckle creases and fingernails for person
identification is presented. It introduces a framework for automatic person identification that …