Recent times witnessed much advancement in the field of biometric and multimodal biometric fields. This is typically observed in the area, of security, privacy, and forensics. Even for the best of unimodal biometric systems, it is often not possible to achieve a higher recognition rate. Fusion of matching scores of multiple biometric traits is becoming more and more prevalent and is a very like...

Biometrics which refers to automatic identity authentication of a person on the basis of his or her unique physiological or behavioral characteristics is inherently more reliable in and more capable of discriminating between an authorized person and imposter than traditional methods. This paper uses a Biometric-based personal verification and identification method which have gained much interes...

In this paper we propose a multifactor biometric sketch authentication method based on biometric sketch recognition and a user’s personal knowledge about the sketch‘s content, which is negotiated between the biometric authentication system and the user during enrollment. The used sketch recognition algorithm is based on the active shape structural model (ASSM) for analyzing the structural varia...

In this paper we propose a multifactor biometric sketch authentication method based on biometric sketch recognition and a user’s personal knowledge about the sketch‘s content, which is negotiated between the biometric authentication system and the user during enrollment. The used sketch recognition algorithm is based on the active shape structural model (ASSM) for analyzing the structural varia...

Biometrics includes the study of automatic methods for distinguishing human beings based on physical or behavioral traits. The problem of finding good biometric features and recognition methods has been researched extensively in recent years. Our research considers the use of ears as a biometric for human recognition. Researchers have not considered this biometric as much as others, which inclu...

Recent years have shown an increase in both the accuracy of biometric systems and their practical use. The application of biometrics is becoming widespread with fingerprint sensors in smartphones, automatic face recognition in social networks and video-based applications, and speaker recognition in phone banking and other phone-based services. The popularization of the biometric systems, howeve...

What information is available in biometric features besides that needed for the biometric recognition process? What if a biometric feature contains Personally Identifiable Information? Will the whole biometric system become a threat to privacy? This paper is an attempt to quantifiy the link between biometrics and privacy. For a number of biometric-personal(ity) combinations, the availability, d...

In computer security, biometrics specifies to validation schemes that rely on considerable substantial characteristics that can be routinely checked. It is utilized in security and admits control applications to indicate scientific physical characteristics and behaviors of a person that could be checked on a mechanized basis. Normally, the biometric security is split into two types, one is base...

This thesis focuses on the biometric traceability of wood logs. Biometric log traceability is at an early stage and present research treats traceability in the sawmill. State-of-the-art systems use Radio Frequency Identi cation (RFID) or plastic batches to reach log traceability from forest site to further processing companies. This work is a preliminary study on biometric log traceability usin...

A biometric system is essentially a pattern recognition system being used in adversarial environment. Since, biometric system like any conventional security system is exposed to malicious adversaries, who can manipulate data to make the system ineffective by compromising its integrity. Current theory and design methods of biometric systems do not take into account the vulnerability to such adve...