Palmprint images contain rich unique features for reliable human identification, which makes
it a very competitive topic in biometric research. A great many different low resolution …

This book examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies—such as facial
recognition software and digital fingerprinting—that have come to pervade our everyday …

This paper develops an unsupervised discriminant projection (UDP) technique for
dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data in small sample size cases. UDP can be …

Sparse representation has attracted great attention in the past few years. Sparse
representation based classification (SRC) algorithm was developed and successfully used …

Palmprint has proved to be one of the most unique and stable biometric characteristics.
Almost all the current palmprint recognition techniques capture the 2-D image of the palm …

Automated biometric systems have emerged as a more reliable alternative to the traditional
personal identification solutions. One of the most popular biometrics is hand shape due to its …

Biometric user authentication techniques evoke an enormous interest by science, industry
and society. Scientists and developers constantly pursue technology for automated …

This paper presents recent advances in biometric recognition, where we focus on face,
fingerprint and iris recognition, which are major research topics on biometric recognition. We …

This paper presents an efficient palmprint based human recognition system. Each palmprint
is divided into several square overlapping blocks. Reconstruction error using principle …

Fingers contain various discriminative biometric traits, such as fingerprint, finger vein, finger
knuckle, finger shape, and so on, which are complementary in identity information. However …