Prevailing methods of human identification based on credentials (identification documents
and PIN) are not able to meet the growing demands for stringent security in applications …

Spoofing with photograph or video is one of the most common manner to circumvent a face
recognition system. In this paper, we present a real-time and non-intrusive method to …

Biometric based personal authentication is an effective method for automatically
recognizing, with a high confidence, a person's identity. By observing that the texture pattern …

The term periocular refers to the facial region in the immediate vicinity of the eye. Acquisition
of the periocular biometric is expected to require less subject cooperation while permitting a …

The purpose of this book is to provide a practical introduction to the th-ries, techniques and
applications of image fusion. The present work has been designed as a textbook for a one …

Most existing computer and network systems authenticate a user only at the initial login
session. This could be a critical security weakness, especially for high-security systems …

Fingerprint matching has been successfully used by law enforcement for more than a
century. The technology is now finding many other applications such as identity …

Pattern recognition systems are increasingly being used in adversarial environments like
network intrusion detection, spam filtering and biometric authentication and verification …

Preserving the privacy of digital biometric data (eg, face images) stored in a central
database has become of paramount importance. This work explores the possibility of using …

Many biometric applications such as face recognition involve data with a large number of
features [1–3]. Analysis of such data is challenging due to the curse-ofdimensionality [4, 5] …