This technical report describes a method for biometric identification based user authentication in distributed environments, which makes use of Trusted Platforms combined with Smart Cards and Trusted Biometric Readers for providing a trusted biometric system. With this authentication method, a user can establish a trust relationship with a Biometric Reader (via integrity checking), and the user...

Human identification by gait has created a great deal of interest in computer vision community due to its advantage of inconspicuous recognition at a relatively far distance. Biometric systems are becoming increasingly important, since they provide more reliable and efficient means of identity verification. Biometric gait Analysis (i.e. recognizing people from the way they walk) is one of the r...

Single biometric modality recognition is not able to meet the high performance supplies in most cases with its application become more and more broadly. Multimodal biometrics identification represents an emerging trend recently. This paper investigates a novel algorithm based on fusion of both fingerprint and fingervein biometrics. For both biometric recognition, we employ the Monogenic Local B...

The authentication based on biometric information has several advantages compared to solely password-based systems, which has led to a growing interest of industry and of public authorities in biometric-based systems. To meet the high security standards concerning biometric data, template protection systems such as the fuzzy vault are indispensable to maintain the secrecy of the critical inform...

.................................................................................................................... 1 Background / Context ............................................................................................... 2 Growing Public Awareness and Interest .............................................................. 3 A Biometrics Primer .......................................

Biometrics introduce to the recognition of human by their characteristics. It is used to identify individuals in groups. Traditional methods of identification involving passwords and PIN numbers, this new technique of identification is preferred over them. Biometric systems are divided on the basis of medium used for authentication. Face Recognition, Iris Recognition, Palm Recognition; Voice Re...

The possibility that a database with biometric data is compromised is one of the main concerns in implementing biometric identification systems. In this paper we present a method of hashing fingerprint minutia information and performing fingerprint identification in a new space. Only hashed data is transmitted and stored in the server database, and it is not possible to restore fingerprint minu...

Biometric templates are often used in intelligent human computer interaction systems that include automated access control and personalization of user interaction. The effectiveness of biometric systems is directly linked with aging that causes modifications on biometric features. For example the long term performance of person identification systems decreases as biometric templates derived fro...

Biometric systems are subjected to a variety of attacks. Stored biometric template attack is very severe compared to all other attacks. Providing security to biometric templates is an important issue in building a reliable personal identification system. Multi biometric systems are more resistive towards spoof attacks compared to unibiometric counterpart. Soft biometric are ancillary informatio...

The major concern in a Biometric Identification System is its accuracy. In spite of the improvements in image acquisition and image processing techniques, the amount of research still being carried out in person verification and identification show that a recognition system which gives 0% FAR (False Acceptance Rate) and FRR (False Rejection Rate) is still not a reality. Multibiometric systems w...