Image Pattern Recognition: Synthesis and Analysis in Biometrics

by Yanuschkevich, Svetlana N.; Wang, Patrick S. P.; Gavrilova, Marina L.; Srihari, Sargur N.

• ISBN13: 9789812569080
• ISBN10: 9812569081
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

The field of biometrics utilizes computer models of the physical and behavioral characteristics of human beings with a view to reliable personal identification. The human characteristics of interest include visual images, speech, and indeed anything which might help to uniquely identify the individual. The other side of the biometrics coin is biometric synthesis -- rendering biometric phenomena from their corresponding computer models. For example, we could generate a synthetic face from its corresponding computer model. Such a model could include muscular dynamics to model the full gamut of human emotions conveyed by facial expressions. This book is a collection of carefully selected papers presenting the fundamental theory and practice of various aspects of biometric data processing in the context of pattern recognition. The traditional task of biometric technologies -- human identifiation by analysis of biometric data -- is extended to include the new discipline of biometric sysnthesis.

Table of Contents

Synthesis in biometrics	p. 1
Introduction to synthesis in biometrics	p. 5
Signature analysis, verification and synthesis in pervasive environments	p. 31
Local b-spline multiresolution with example in Iris synthesis and volumetric rendering	p. 65
Computational geometry and image processing in biometrics : on the path to convergence	p. 103
Analysis in biometrics	p. 135
A statistical model for biometric verification	p. 139
Composite systems for handwritten signature recognition	p. 159
Force field feature extraction for ear biometrics	p. 183
Nontensor-product-wavelet-based facial feature representation	p. 207
Palmprint identification by fused wavelet characteristics	p. 225
Behavioral biometrics for online computer user monitoring	p. 243
Biometric systems and applications	p. 265
Large-scale biometric identification : challenges and solutions	p. 269
Evolutionary algorithms : basic concepts and applications in biometrics	p. 289
Some concerns on the measurement for biometric analysis and applications	p. 321
Issues involving the human biometric sensor interface	p. 339
Fundamentals of biometric-based training system design	p. 365
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