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Introduction to the Special Issue on Biometrics: Progress and Directions

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2000

I N addition to its extensive use in forensic sciences, biometrics technology is rapidly being adopted in a wide variety of security applications such as computer and physical access control, electronic commerce, digital rights management, background checking, homeland security, and defense. Security systems demand high accuracy, high throughput, and low cost from their biometric subsystems. Although biometric systems have made great strides, especially over recent years, there is continued need for vigorous research to solve many challenging problems still outstanding. The goal of this special issue has been to document the current state-ofthe-art, acknowledge the latest breakthroughs achieved by scientists working in the area of biometric recognition, and identify future promising research areas. We received a tremendous response to the Call for Papers for this issue. In total, there were 85 submissions, one of the largest ever for a special issue for TPAMI.

Biometrics Technology Review 2008

2008

Biometrics is the measurement of personal physical features, actions or behavioural characteristics that distinguish between individuals. In recent years automated biometric systems, such as facial, fingerprint and iris recognition systems, have been developed to facilitate a range of functions. These functions can be broadly categorised as verification or identification, and include, for instance, physical and logical access control, management of major plant and machinery, weapons control, identity management, surveillance operations, and personnel management. This paper is an updated version of the Biometrics Technology Review 2002 published in 2003 by Blackburn et al. It provides an overview of the basic elements of biometrics; a detailed examination of current and future biometric technologies; discusses the many different applications of biometrics; and highlights the issues associated with using such technology.

Biometric Applications Related to Human Beings: There Is Life beyond Security

Cognitive Computation, 2012

The use of biometrics has been successfully applied to security applications for some time. However, the extension of other potential applications with the use of biometric information is a very recent development. This paper summarizes the field of biometrics and investigates the potential of utilizing biometrics beyond the presently limited field of security applications. There are some synergies that can be established within security-related applications. These can also be relevant in other fields such as health and ambient intelligence. This paper describes these synergies. Overall, this paper highlights some interesting and exciting research areas as well as possible synergies between different applications using biometric information.

Review of Biometric system performance, metrics and representation..

Numerous applications for personal identification exist and more are emerging daily. Examples of personal identification applications include immigration and border control, physical access control, time and attendance, computer security, and law enforcement. As a result, the area of biometrics will continue to be an area of interest for many researchers. In the past, the identity of an individual was determined based upon a possession or knowledge of a piece of information. These identification methods can be circumvented by unauthorized sharing or misplacement. However, biometric identifiers cannot be shared easily or forgotten because they are based on potentially distinctive physiological characteristics. This property makes biometrics a viable and perhaps superior approach to personal identification.

Biometrics: a grand challenge

2004

Abstract Reliable person identification is an important problem in diverse businesses. Biometrics, identification based on distinctive personal traits, has the potential to become an irreplaceable part of any identification system. While successful in some niche markets, the biometrics technology has not yet delivered its promise of foolproof automatic identification.

Some Research Problems in Biometrics: The Future Beckons

2019 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), 2019

The need for reliably determining the identity of a person is critical in a number of different domains ranging from personal smartphones to border security; from autonomous vehicles to e-voting; from tracking child vaccinations to preventing human trafficking; from crime scene investigation to personalization of customer service. Biometrics, which entails the use of biological attributes such as face, fingerprints and voice for recognizing a person, is being increasingly used in several such applications. While biometric technology has made rapid strides over the past decade, there are several fundamental issues that are yet to be satisfactorily resolved. In this article, we will discuss some of these issues and enumerate some of the exciting challenges in this field.

Biometrics Verification: a Literature Survey

International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, 2011

Biometric verification refers to an automatic verification of a person based on some specific biometric features derived from his/her physiological and/or behavioral characteristics. A biometric verification system has more capability to reliably distinguish between an authorized person and an imposter than the traditional systems that use a card or a password. In biometrics, a person could be recognized based on who he/she is rather than what he/she has (ID card) or what he/she knows (password). Currently, biometrics finds use in ATMs, computers, security installations, mobile phones, credit cards, health and social services. The future in biometrics seems to belong to the multimodal biometrics (a biometric system using more than one biometric feature) as a unimodal biometric system (biometric system using single biometric feature) has to contend with a number of problems. In this paper, a survey of some of the unimodal biometrics will be presented that are either currently in use across a range of environments or those still in limited use or under development, or still in the research realm.

Criminal Justice Technology: Biometrics

Technology advancement has become indispensable to the criminal justice system for technological revolution has swept the nation. The law enforcement, court systems, and correctional institutions have had to rapidly adapt to a world where technology is evolving so fast that breakthrough technologies of yesterday have become ordinary today. The use of biometrics by the criminal justice system has greatly increased over the last decade and today biometric technologies play a large role in law enforcement. The accurate identification of suspects is crucial for the judicial system to be effective as per Shahnewaz (2015), “a justice that is delayed is a justice that is denied.” The public must be able to trust in the criminal justice system’s capability to administer the justice to the right individuals in a judicious way. Biometrics present identification systems that assist the judicial system in accurately identifying suspects and determining their innocence or guilt in a timely manner. This paper discusses the history of biometrics and provides a description of biometric technologies used by the law enforcement to identify offenders. As well as examining how biometrics fit into the context of the criminal justice system, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of biometric technologies.