O n the basis of media hype alone, you might conclude that biometric passwords will soon replace their alphanumeric counterparts with versions that cannot be stolen, forgotten , lost, or given to another person. But what if the performance estimates of these systems are far more impressive than their actual performance? To measure the real-life performance of biometric systems—and to understand...

Biometric advances apply to a range of disciplines to ensure the safety and security of individuals and groups. To stress the value of biometrics, this study focuses on the application of biometric techniques to a vast range of individuals and groups, irrespective of their age. This report covers biometric development within three generations. For the younger age group, biometrics can play a si...

We create synthetic biometric databases to study general, fundamental, biometric principles. First, we check the validity of the synthetic database design by comparing it to real data in terms of biometric performance. The real data used for this validity check was from an eyemovement related biometric database. Next, we employ our database to evaluate the impact of variations of temporal persi...

Faces change over time and this has been problematic for face biometric systems. Little research has been conducted in this area and this study reviews two face biometric systems, Neurotechnology’s Verilook and Luxand’s FaceSDK, and conducts experiments with the affects of aging in mind. Research was conducted on how anthropometrics is linked to facial biometric systems and the orbital areas of...

The objective of this study was to provide vulnerability analysis for multi biometric systems and their performance against the known attacks. The report helps in identifying and analyzing risks that may have detrimental outcomes on the security provided by multi biometric systems. The risk assessment process was based on the standards of Risk Management (ISO 31000). Investigation of various re...

Biometric systems are vulnerable to certain type of attacks at various points in the biometric model. A spoofing attack which is submitting a stolen, copied biometric trait to the sensor to gain unauthorized access to the biometric system is one among them. Multimodal biometric systems are designed to increase the accuracy of the biometric system, but they are more vulnerable to spoofing attack...

This study investigates the use of ear as a biometric for authentication and shows experimental results obtained on a newly created dataset of 420 images. Images are passed to a quality module in order to reduce False Rejection Rate. The Principal Component Analysis (“eigen ear”) approach was used, obtaining 90.7 % recognition rate. Improvement in recognition results is obtained when ear biomet...