This collection examines the subject of identification and surveillance from 16th C English
parish registers to 21st C DNA databases. The contributors, who range from historians to …

The security concerns due to the September 11 and later terroristic attacks, fostered the
development of more advanced techniques for biometric identification. This had a positive …

The adoption of Cloud computing involves many advantages in terms of flexibility, scalability
and reliability, but also implies new challenges on security, data privacy and protection of …

In this paper, a facial recognition system is described, which carry out the classification
process by analyzing 3D information of the face. The process begins with the acquisition of …

Automatic personal identification is playing an important role in secure and reliable
applications, such as access control, surveillance systems, information systems, physical …

" Se describe el desarrollo de un sistema de reconocimiento facial a partir del análisis de
rostros digitalizados en tres dimensiones, el cual es una aplicación biométrica que se apoya …

As the chapters in the present collection show, the history of the techniques and
technologies of identification is a young and vigorous field of research. The present volume …

Identification of newborns at birth is a critical issue for hospitals, birthing centers, and other
institutions where multiple births occur. With approximately 300,000 infants born worldwide …

In unimodal biometric systems, there are several limitations like, non-universality, noisy data
and other security risks. To overcome these, multimodal biometric systems are increasingly …

The intersection of critical creative practices and HCI was explored in an effort to create a
design framework for developing material speculations in the form of communication tools …