Biometric authentication has attracted attention because of its high security and convenience. However, biometric feature such as fingerprint can not be revoked like passwords. Thus once the biometric data of a user stored in the system has been compromised, it can not be used for authentication securely for his/her whole life long. To address this issue, an authentication scheme called cancela...

Retinal image is one of the robust and accurate biometrics methods to recognize a person. In this article we present a new biometric identification system based on Fourier transform and angular partitioning of the spectrum. In this method, at first, the optical disc is localized using template matching technique and used for rotating the retinal image into the reference position. It compensates...

In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for speeding up the process of template matching that uses M-estimators for dealing with outliers. We propose a particular image hierarchy called the p-pyramid that can be exploited to generate a list of ascending lower bounds of the minimal matching errors when a non-decreasing robust error measure is adopted. Then, the set of lower bounds can be used...

This paper presents an application of a flexible model-based template matching algorithm named "deformable template matching." The template which models the shape of objects consists of some nodal points and segments that connect the nodal points sequentially. The template holds information about the known deformation of the object's shape, and it makes the shape recognition flexible. The match...