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Guide to Biometrics

By (author) Ruud M. Bolle, By (author) Jonathan H. Connell, By (author) Sharath Pankanti, By (author) Nalini K. Ratha, By (author) Andrew W. Senior

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Starting with fingerprints more than a hundred years ago, there has been ongoing research in biometrics. Within the last forty years face and speaker recognition have emerged as research topics. However, as recently as a decade ago, biometrics itself did not exist as an independent field. Each of the biometric-related topics grew out of different disciplines. For example, the study of fingerprints came from forensics and pattern recognition, speaker recognition evolved from signal processing, the beginnings of face recognition were in computer vision, and privacy concerns arose from the public policy arena. One of the challenges of any new field is to state what the core ideas are that define the field in order to provide a research agenda for the field and identify key research problems. Biometrics has been grappling with this challenge since the late 1990s. With the matu­ ration of biometrics, the separate biometrics areas are coalescing into the new discipline of biometrics. The establishment of biometrics as a recognized field of inquiry allows the research community to identify problems that are common to biometrics in general. It is this identification of common problems that will define biometrics as a field and allow for broad advancement.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Delivery time is 14 - 21 days
Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Published date | 3 Dec 2010
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 364
Dimensions | 235 x 191 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-4419-2305-9
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BISAC | computers / computer vision


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