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

Human identification by fingerprints is based on the fundamental premise that ridge patterns
from distinct fingers are different (uniqueness) and a fingerprint pattern does not change …

The fingerprint has, with considerable justification, come to be regarded as the acme of
forensic identification. Over the last century, millions of cases have been resolved world …

Gabor filters (GFs) play an important role in many application areas for the enhancement of
various types of images and the extraction of Gabor features. For the purpose of enhancing …

Thanks to Mr. James Bond, we are aware that diamonds are forever but, are fingerprints? It
is well known that biometrics brings to the security field a new paradigm; unlike traditional …

Biometric recognition is often used for adults for a variety of purposes where an individual's
identity must be ascertained. However, the biometric recognition of children is an unsolved …

The accurate identification and recognition of newborns hold significant importance in
ensuring their safety and security within healthcare environments, particularly in hospitals …

Fingerprint recognition plays an important role in many commercial applications and is used
by millions of people every day, eg for unlocking mobile phones. Fingerprint image …

Finding solutions to the classical transportation problem is of great importance, since this
optimization problem arises in many engineering and computer science applications …

One of the major goals of most national, international and non-governmental health
organizations is to eradicate the occurrence of vaccine-preventable childhood diseases (eg …