Recognizing people by their ear has recently received significant attention in the literature.
Several reasons account for this trend: first, ear recognition does not suffer from some …

Biometrics is the science of automatically recognizing people based on physical or
behavioral characteristics such as face, fingerprint, iris, hand, voice, gait, and signature …

To ensure the actual presence of a real legitimate trait in contrast to a fake self-manufactured
synthetic or reconstructed sample is a significant problem in biometric authentication, which …

Traditional biometric recognition systems rely on a single biometric signature for
authentication. While the advantage of using multiple sources of information for establishing …

Security and privacy in biometric systems have been traditionally seen as two requirements
hindering each other. Only in the recent past researchers have started investigating it as a …

A binary iriscode is a very compact representation of an iris image. For a long time it was
assumed that the iriscode did not contain enough information to allow for the reconstruction …

The author of this book–an updated version of her Ph. D. dissertation at the Catholic
University of Leuven in Belgium–is clearly no stranger in the world of biometrics and …

As a crucial security problem, anti-spoofing in biometrics, and particularly for the face
modality, has achieved great progress in the recent years. Still, new threats arrive inform of …

Computing and communication systems have improved our way of life, but have also
contributed to an increased data exposure and, consequently, to identity theft. A possible …

This paper presents an objective evaluation of previously unexplored biometric techniques
utilizing patterns identifiable in human eye movements to distinguish individuals. The …