BIOMETRICS - MARKET SEGMENTS AND APPLICATIONS

Tracking data-driven market segments

Market segmentation has become a standard concept in tourism marketing. A priori and a posteriori (datadriven) segmentation approaches enjoy high popularity among both practitioners and researchers. In order to optimize the market segmentation strategy it is not only necessary to identify relevant market segments, describe them, evaluate the match between corporate or destination strengths and ...

Biometrics: Promising Frontiers for Emerging Identiication Market

An accurate automatic personal identiication is critical to a wide range of application domains such as access control, electronic commerce, and welfare beneets disbursement. Traditional personal identiication methods (e.g., passwords, PIN) suuer from a number of drawbacks and are unable to satisfy the security requirement of our highly interconnected information society. Biometrics refers to a...

Biometrics Applications: Technology, Ethics, and Health Hazards

Multi-Modal Biometrics: Applications, Strategies and Operations

The need for adequate attention to security of lives and properties cannot be over-emphasised. Existing approaches to security management by various agencies and sectors have focused on the use of possession (card, token) and knowledge (password, username)-based strategies which are susceptible to forgetfulness, damage, loss, theft, forgery and other activities of fraudsters. The surest and mos...

Heart Biometrics: Theory, Methods and Applications

Automatic and accurate identity validation is becoming increasingly critical in several aspects of our every day lives such as in financial transactions, access control, traveling, healthcare and other. Traditional strategies to automatic identity recognition include items such as PIN numbers, tokens, passwords and ID cards. Despite the wide deployment of such tactics, the authenticating means ...