Recognizing humans based upon one’s intrinsic physical or behavioral traits has been gaining acceptance and is termed as biometrics. It involves either confirmation or denial of the identity that the user is claiming. It is especially important in ensuring security for access to highly restricted areas (for example: accessing classified documents, control gates and defence related applications)...

Different types of biometrics are currently available in the market, and are widely used in various security applications. Biometrics can be classified into two categories, “physiological biometrics” and “behavioral biometrics”. Physiological biometrics identify the user based on physiological characteristics, such as fingerprints and eye retina/iris scanning, whereas behavioral biometrics depe...

Traditionally the use of codes or passwords have been used to authenticate access to mobile devices, but now the use of biometrics is increasingly being implemented. However is the use of biometrics a secure way to authenticate access to mobile devices. This paper provides insight into the different areas of biometrics, how they are now implemented on mobile devices as well as their advantages ...

High flexibility demands of business processes in an inter-organizational context potentially conflict with existing security needs, mainly implied by regulative and legal requirements. In order to comply with these it has to be ensured that access to information within the workflow is restricted to authorized participants. Furthermore, the system might be required to prove this retrospectively...

Access control systems using the latest biometric technologies can offer a higher level of security than conventional passwordbased systems. Their widespread deployments, however, can severely undermine individuals’ rights of privacy. Biometric signals are immutable and can be exploited to associate individuals’ identities to sensitive personal records across disparate databases. In this paper,...

In this paper, a high-performance face recognition terminal for access control systems is described. The terminal is specially designed to acquire stable face patterns for reliable recognition. To determine design of an image input device, we evaluate similarity values and their changes for three types of lighting apparatuses. Our basic experiment indicates that a combination of the upper-right...

Biometric recognition, or simply biometrics, refers to automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural and biological characteristics. The success of fingerprints in forensic science and law enforcement applications, coupled with growing concerns related to border control, financial fraud and cyber security, has generated a huge interest in using fingerprints, as well as other b...