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Some Research Problems in Biometrics: The Future Beckons
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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.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2010
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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.