Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Human Detection and Recognition (original) (raw)
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2010
The term biometrics is derived from the Greek words bio meaning “life” and metrics meaning “ to measure” . Biometrics refers to the identification or verification of a person based on his/her physiological and/or behavioral characteristics. Several verification/identification based biometrics have evolved based on various unique aspects of human body, ease of acquiring the biometric, public acceptance and the degree of security required. This paper presents an overview of various biometrics in use/proposed and their applicability to different activities.
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.
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.
Biometric-Based Human Recognition Systems: An Overview
IntechOpen, 2022
With the proliferation of automated systems for reliable and highly secure human authentication and identification, the importance of technological solutions in biometrics is growing along with security awareness. Indeed, conventional authentication methodologies, consisting of knowledge-based systems that make use of something you know (e.g., username and password) and token-based systems that make use of something you have (e.g., identification card), are not able to meet the strict requirements of reliable security applications. Conversely, biometric systems make use of behavioral (extrinsic) and/or physiological (intrinsic) human characteristics, overcoming the security issues affecting the conventional methods for personal authentication. This book chapter provides an overview of the most commonly used biometric traits along with their properties, the various biometric system operating modalities as well as various security aspects related to these systems. In particular, it will be discussed the different stages involved in a biometric recognition process and further discuss various threats that can be exploited to compromise the security of a biometric system. Finally, in order to evaluate the systems' performance, metrics must be adopted. The most widely used metrics are, therefore, discussed in relation to the provided system accuracy and security, and applicability in real-world deployments.
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.
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.