Biometric based person identity verification is gaining more and more attention. Several studies have shown that multimodal biometric identification systems improve the recognition accuracy and reliability compared with recognition using a single biometric. The present paper introduces a new personal identification framework that is based on the fusion of face and fingerprint biometrics. The pr...

Performances of biometric recognition systems can degrade quickly when the input biometric traits exhibit substantial variations compared to the templates collected during the enrolment stage of system’s users. On the other hand, a lot of new unlabelled biometric data, which could be exploited to adapt the system to input data variations, are made available during the system operation over the ...

With a number of emerging applications requiring biometric recognition of children (e.g., tracking child vaccination schedules, identifying missing children and preventing newborn baby swaps in hospitals), investigating the temporal stability of biometric recognition accuracy for children is important. The persistence of recognition accuracy of three of the most commonly used biometric traits (...

In recent days, the need of biometric security system is heightened for providing safety and security against terrorist attacks, robbery, etc. The demand of biometric system has risen due to its strength, efficiency and easy availability. One of the most effective, highly authenticated and easily adaptable biometric security systems is facial feature recognition. This paper has covered almost a...

This chapter is intended to introduce the role of biometrics in virtual communities and digital governments. Key steps for a biometric system to complete an identification or verification / authentication process are introduced. Main biometric techniques, such as fingerprint recognition, face recognition, iris recognition, and voice recognition, for the security purposes of identification and a...

A biometric system provides automatic identification of an individual based on a unique feature or characteristic possessed by the individual. Unlike other biometric such as fingerprints, hand geometry and face recognition, the distinct aspect of iris comes from randomly distributed features. Iris recognition is regarded as the most reliable and accurate biometric identification system availabl...

A biometric system provides automatic recognition of an individual based on a unique feature or characteristic possessed by the individual. These biometric characteristic may physiological or behavioral. Unlike other identification methods such as id proof, tokens and password, the distinct aspect of biometric recognition comes into light from randomly distributed features in human being. In th...