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Comments on Five Smart Card Based Password Authentication Protocols
Mar 2010
Smart card based password authentication protocols are widely adopted for logging into the remote servers. The protocols can provide mutual authentication between the client and the server over an...
Provided by National Tsing Hua University
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On Notions of Security for Deterministic Encryption, and Efficient Constructions Without Random Oracles
Feb 2009
The study of deterministic public-key encryption was initiated by Bellare et al. (CRYPTO '07), who provided the "Strongest Possible" notion of security for this primitive (called PRIV) and...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Identity-Based Encryption With Efficient Revocation
Oct 2008
Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) is an exciting alternative to public-key encryption, as IBE eliminates the need for a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Any setting, PKI- or identity-based, must...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Probabilistic Orientation Field Estimation for Fingerprint Enhancement and Verification
Aug 2008
The authors present a novel probabilistic method to estimate the orientation field in fingerprint images. Traditional approach based on the smoothing of local image gradients usually generates...
Provided by DigitalPersona
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White Papers
PQR: Finding the PKI Needles in the Internet Haystack
Feb 2008
Public-key cryptography can uniquely enable trust within distributed settings. Employing it usually requires deploying a set of tools and services collectively known as a Public Key Infrastructure...
Provided by Dartmouth College
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Webcasts
EDI eCommerce Strategy and Roadmap - New and Enhanced Solutions for Your Advantage
Jan 2011
What is new with EDI eCommerce. New enhancements make the product easier to use. Does one have a need for less technical personnel to manage EDI data? Does one have requirements to process XML...
Provided by QAD
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White Papers
A Generic Framework for Implementing Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries
Feb 2011
In this paper, the authors present an effective framework for adapting electronic commerce and e-commerce services in developing countries like Bangladesh. The proposed scheme takes the major...
Provided by Khulna University
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White Papers
Understanding Cognitive and Affective States Using Eyelid Movements
Jul 2007
Biometrics related to the eye region is of particular interest in a range of applications - from identification to adaptive interfaces. This paper describes a technique for monitoring dynamic eye...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Universal Background Models for Dynamic Signature Verification
Jul 2007
The applicability of Universal Background Models as a score normalization technique is studied for the case of dynamic signature verification. This technique is commonly used in speaker...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On Model-Based Analysis of Ear Biometrics
Jul 2007
Ears are a new biometric with major advantage in that they appear to maintain their structure with increasing age. Most current approaches are holistic and describe the ear by its general...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fingerprint Readers: Vulnerabilities to Front- and Back- end Attacks
Jul 2007
This letter examines the applicability of cardiac signals for biometric recognition. Two physiological signals are considered, namely the Electro Cardio Gram (ECG) and the Phono Car Diogram (PCG)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Illumination Invariant Face Recognition: A Survey
Jul 2007
The illumination variation problem is one of the well-known problems in face recognition in uncontrolled environment. In this paper an extensive and up-to-date survey of the existing techniques to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Biometric Systematic Uncertainty and the User
Jul 2007
Often biometric technology and system evaluators are concerned with capturing accurate performance estimates that predict performance for target populations of interest. Occasionally, predictions,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Comparison of Fingerprint Quality Measures Using an Optical and a Capacitive Sensor
Jul 2007
Although several image quality measures have been proposed for fingerprints, no work has taken into account the differences among capture devices, and how these differences impact on the image...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Evolution Strategies for Matching Active Appearance Models to Human Faces
Jul 2007
Face registration is a challenging problem due in part to the non-rigid nature of human faces. Active Appearance Models (AAMs) have been proposed as a useful technique for face registration in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Robust Gray-Scale Distribution Estimation for Contactless Palmprint Recognition
Mar 2010
Palmprint identification has emerged as one of the popular and promising biometric modalities for forensic and commercial applications. In recent years the contactless system emerges as a viable...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Verifying Fingerprint Match by Local Correlation Methods
Jul 2007
Most fingerprint matching algorithms are based on finding correspondences between minutiae in two fingerprints. In this paper the authors present a modification of minutiae matching method, which...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Cost Curve Analysis of Biometric System Performance
Jun 2009
Biometric classification algorithms typically offer a range of performance characteristics which balance false non-match and false match rates. Nevertheless, the threshold which meets application...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Comparing Verification Performance of Kids and Adults for Fingerprint, Palmprint, Hand-Geometry and Digitprint Biometrics
Jun 2009
With the large scale deployment of biometrics for access control in private and public places, systems are faced the challenge of processing a diverse range of people. Most systems have been well...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Statistical Analysis of Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability Performance
Jun 2009
The proliferation of networked authentication systems has put focus on the issue of interoperability. Fingerprint sensors are based on a variety of different technologies that introduce...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Spectral Minutiae Representations of Fingerprints Enhanced by Quality Data
Jun 2009
Many fingerprint recognition systems are based on minutiae matching. However, the recognition accuracy of minutiae-based matching algorithms is highly dependent on the fingerprint minutiae...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multiclass mõ-Granular Soft Support Vector Machine: A Case Study in Dynamic Classifier Selection for Multispectral Face Recognition
Aug 2008
This paper presents a novel formulation of multiclass support vector machine by integrating the concepts of soft labels and granular computing. The proposed multiclass mõ-granular soft support...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
Algorithms and Approaches of Proxy Signature: A Survey
Feb 2008
Digital signature is a cryptographic means through which the authenticity, data integrity and senders non-repudiation can be verified. Typically, digital signature of a document is a piece of...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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White Papers
Tardos fingerprinting is better than we thought
Jun 2008
Tardos has proposed a randomized fingerprinting code that is provably secure against collusion attacks. The authors revisit his scheme and show that it has significantly better performance than...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Weighted Attribute Fusion Model for Face Recognition
Jul 2010
Recognizing a face based on its attributes is an easy task for a human to perform as it is a cognitive process. In recent years, Face Recognition is achieved with different kinds of facial...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
Designated Confirmer Signatures With Unified Verification
Mar 2011
After the introduction of Designated Confirmer Signatures (DCS) by Chaum in 1994, considerable researches have been done to build generic schemes from standard digital signatures and construct...
Provided by University of Birmingham
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White Papers
New Cryptosystems From CSP-Based Self-Distributive Systems
Apr 2010
The authors propose new cryptosystems based on self-distributive systems that are defined by Conjugator Searching Problems (CSP) in noncommutative groups. Under the newly developed cryptographic...
Provided by University of Tsukuba
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White Papers
Classification of Startle Eyeblink Metrics Using Neural Networks
Mar 2009
In this paper, the authors show the feasibility of using high-speed video for measurement of startle eyeblinks as a new augmentative modality for biometric security, as blinks can reveal emotional...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Feature Based RDWT Watermarking for Multimodal Biometric System
Jun 2007
This paper presents a 3-level RDWT biometric watermarking algorithm to embed the voice biometric MFC coefficients in a color face image of the same individual for increased robustness, security...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
Multi-Verifier Signatures
Aug 2009
Multi-verifier signatures generalize traditional digital signatures to a secret-key setting. Just like digital signatures, these signatures are both transferable and secure under arbitrary...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
Boosting LDA With Regularization on MPCA Features for Gait Recognition
Jul 2007
In this paper, the authors present a boosted Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) solution with regularization on features extracted by the Multilinear Principal Component Analysis (MPCA) for the...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
A Novel in E-Voting in Egypt
Nov 2007
Election is a fundamental instrument of democracy that provides an official mechanism for people to convey their views to their government by democratic means. E-voting becomes the most important...
Provided by Royal Institute of British Architects
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White Papers
Towards a General Definition of Biometric Systems
Oct 2009
A foundation for closing the gap between biometrics in the narrower and the broader perspective is presented trough a conceptualization of biometric systems in both perspectives. A clear...
Provided by University of Zagreb
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Multi-Modal Biometric Verification Based on FAR-Score Normalization
Apr 2008
Fusion different biometrics is an effective way to design a biometric system with robust performance. To do this, normalization functions are employed. However, these functions can not follow the...
Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences
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White Papers
An Insight to Build an E-Commerce Website With OSCommerce
May 2011
Many people who use computers in their day to day life to conduct their business, don't have time or spend good time to develop clear idea or to leverage the latest internet applications or...
Provided by PES Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Intelligent Mobile Search Oriented to Global e-Commerce
Jun 2009
In this paper the authors propose a novel approach for searching e-Commerce products using a mobile phone, illustrated by a prototype eCoMobile. This approach aims to globalize the mobile search...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Video-Based Camera Tracking Using Rotation-Discriminative Template Matching
Feb 2009
This paper presents a video-based camera tracker that combines marker-based and feature point-based cues in a particle filter framework. The framework relies on their complementary performance....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Robust Infants Face Tracking Using Active Appearance Models: A Mixed-State CONDENSATION Approach
Sep 2007
In this paper a new extension of the CONDENSATION algorithm, with application to infants face tracking, will be introduced. In this paper the authors address the problem of tracking a face and its...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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A Comparison of Java Cards: State-of-Affairs 2006
May 2010
This paper presents the results of a comparative study of some popular Java Cards on the market. Eight different cards from four manufacturers have been considered. The analysis has been done at...
Provided by Radboud University
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White Papers
Face Recognition System Using HGPP and Adaptive Binning Method
Jan 2011
Over the last decade, human face recognition has attracted significant attention because of its wide range of applications such as criminal identification, credit card verification, security...
Provided by Anna University
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White Papers
Spectral Minutiae Representations for Fingerprint Recognition
Jul 2010
The spectral minutiae representation introduced in this paper is a novel method to represent a minutiae set as a fixed-length feature vector, which is invariant to translation, and in which...
Provided by University of Twente
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White Papers
Activity Related Biometrics Based on Motion Trajectories
Jul 2010
This paper contributes to the concept of activity-related biometric authentication in ambient Intelligence environments. The motivation behind the proposed approach derives from activity-related...
Provided by Imperial College London
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White Papers
Activity-Related Biometric Authentication
Aug 2008
This project aims at developing a biometric authentication system exploiting new features extracted by analyzing the dynamic nature of various modalities, including motion analysis during ordinary...
Provided by Technical University of Catalonia
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White Papers
Accelerometer-Based Gait Analysis, a Survey
Sep 2010
From a technological perspective, biometric gait recognition can be categorized into three approaches: Machine Vision based, Floor Sensor based and Wearable Sensor based. This survey covers...
Provided by Gjøvik University College
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White Papers
A Routing-Driven Public-Key Cryptosystem Based Key Management Scheme for a Sensor Network
Oct 2011
In homogeneous sensor networks, many-to-one traffic pattern dominates and hence a sensor may only communicate with a small portion of its neighbors. So, the homogeneous sensor networks have poor...
Provided by Sipnas college of Engineering & Technology
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White Papers
Biometric Recognition of Newborns: Identification Using Palmprints
Aug 2011
The authors present some results on newborn identification through high-resolution images of palmar surfaces. To their knowledge, there is no biometric system currently available that can be...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Latent Palmprint Matching
Jun 2009
The evidential value of palmprints in forensic applications is clear as about 30 percent of the latents recovered from crime scenes are from palms. While biometric systems for palmprint-based...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
A Network of Dynamic Probabilistic Models for Human Interaction Analysis
Jul 2011
The authors propose a novel method of analyzing human interactions based on the walking trajectories of human subjects, which provide elementary and necessary components for understanding and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On the Utility of Extended Fingerprint Features: A Study on Pores
Apr 2010
Extended fingerprint features are routinely used by latent examiners in forensic applications. They are now being considered for inclusion in Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS),...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Latent Fingerprint Matching: Utility of Level 3 Features
Aug 2010
Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) have for a long time used only minutiae for fingerprint matching. But minutiae are only a small subset of fingerprint detail routinely used by...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On Latent Fingerprint Enhancement
Dec 2009
Automatic feature extraction in latent fingerprints is a challenging problem due to poor quality of most latents, such as unclear ridge structures, overlapped lines and letters, and overlapped...
Provided by Michigan State University
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On Matching Altered Fingerprints
Mar 2012
Fingerprint alteration refers to changes made in a person's finger ridge structure by means of abrading, cutting, or performing plastic surgery on the fingertips. Fingerprint alteration is a...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Latent Fingerprint Enhancement Via Robust Orientation Field Estimation
Dec 2011
Latent fingerprints, or simply latents, have been considered as cardinal evidence for identifying and convicting criminals. The amount of information available for identification from latents is...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Latent Fingerprint Matching: Fusion of Manually Marked and Derived Minutiae
Feb 2011
Matching unknown latent fingerprints lifted from crime scenes to full (rolled or plain) fingerprints in law enforcement databases is of critical importance for combating crime and fighting...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
On Matching Latent Fingerprints
Jun 2008
Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance to law enforcement agencies in forensics application. While tremendous progress has been made in the field of automatic fingerprint...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Latent Fingerprint Matching
Mar 2009
Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance to law enforcement agencies in identifying suspects. While tremendous progress has been made in plain and rolled fingerprint matching,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fingerprint Reconstruction: From Minutiae to Phase
Feb 2011
Fingerprint matching systems generally use four types of representation schemes: grayscale image, phase image, skeleton image, and minutiae, among which minutiae-based representation is the most...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Filtering Large Fingerprint Database for Latent Matching
Dec 2008
Latent fingerprint identification is of critical importance to law enforcement agencies in apprehending criminals. Considering the huge size of fingerprint databases maintained by law enforcement...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
FM Model Based Fingerprint Reconstruction From Minutiae Template
Jan 2009
Minutiae-based representation is the most widely adopted fingerprint representation scheme. The compactness of minutiae template has created an impression that the minutiae template does not...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Detecting Altered Fingerprints
Aug 2010
The widespread deployment of Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) in law enforcement and border control applications has prompted some individuals with criminal background to evade...
Provided by Tsinghua University
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White Papers
Fingerprint-Based Recognition
Feb 2011
Biometric recognition, or biometrics, refers to the authentication of an individual based on her or his biometric traits. Among the various biometric traits (e.g., face, iris, fingerprint, voice),...
Provided by American Statistical Association
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White Papers
Separating Overlapped Fingerprints
Jun 2011
Fingerprint images generally contain either a single fingerprint (e.g., rolled images) or a set of non-overlapped fingerprints (e.g., slap fingerprints). However, there are situations where...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Beyond Minutiae: A Fingerprint Individuality Model With Pattern, Ridge and Pore Features
Jun 2009
Fingerprints are considered to be unique because they contain various distinctive features, including minutiae, ridges, pores, etc. Some attempts have been made to model the minutiae in order to...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Face Finder: Filtering a Large Face Database Using Scars, Marks and Tattoos
Aug 2011
Facial marks (e.g. moles, freckles, and scars) are soft biometric traits that have limited utility in uniquely identifying individuals. However, facial marks can still play a crucial role both in...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Face Matching and Retrieval Using Soft Biometrics
Sep 2010
Soft biometric traits embedded in a face (e.g., gender and facial marks) are ancillary information and are not fully distinctive by themselves in face-recognition tasks. However, this information...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Continuous User Authentication Using Temporal Information
Dec 2009
Conventional computer systems authenticate users only at the initial log-in session, which can be the cause of a critical security flaw. To resolve this problem, systems need continuous user...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
NFRAD: Near-Infrared Face Recognition at a Distance
Oct 2011
Face recognition at a distance is gaining wide attention in order to augment the surveillance systems with face recognition capability. However, face recognition at a distance in nighttime has not...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Partial Face Recognition: An Alignment Free Approach
Oct 2011
Many approaches have been developed for holistic face recognition with impressive performance. However, few studies have addressed the question of how to recognize an arbitrary image patch of a...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
A Discriminative Model for Age Invariant Face Recognition
May 2011
Aging variation poses a serious problem to automatic face recognition systems. Most of the face recognition studies that have addressed the aging problem are focused on age estimation or aging...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Improved Coupled Spectral Regression for Heterogeneous Face Recognition
Dec 2011
Coupled Spectral Regression (CSR) is an effective framework for heterogeneous face recognition (e.g., VISual light (VIS) vs. Near InfraRed (NIR)). CSR aims to learn different projections for...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Face Recognition in the Virtual World: Recognizing Avatar Faces
Jan 2011
Criminal activity in virtual worlds is becoming a major problem for law enforcement agencies. Forensic investigators are becoming interested in being able to accurately and automatically track...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Analysis of Facial Features in Identical Twins
Dec 2011
A study of the distinctiveness of different facial features (MLBP, SIFT, and facial marks) with respect to distinguishing identical twins is presented. The accuracy of distinguishing between...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
On Matching Forensic Sketches to Mugshot Photos
Aug 2010
The problem of matching a forensic sketch to a gallery of mugshot images is addressed in this paper. Previous research in sketch matching offered solutions to matching highly accurate sketches...
Provided by Korea University
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White Papers
A Unified Framework for Biometric Expert Fusion Incorporating Quality Measures
Apr 2011
This paper proposes a unified framework for quality-based fusion of multimodal biometrics. Quality-dependent fusion algorithms aim to dynamically combine several classifier (biometric expert)...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
Incorporating Variation of Model-Specific Score Distribution in Speaker Verification Systems
Dec 2007
It has been shown that the authentication performance of a biometric system is dependent on the models/templates specific to a user. As a result, some users may be more easily recognized or...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
On Using Error Bounds to Optimize Cost-Sensitive Multimodal Biometric Authentication
Aug 2008
While using more biometric traits in multimodal biometric fusion can effectively increase the system robustness, often, the cost associated to adding additional systems is not considered. In this...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
Model and Score Adaptation for Biometric Systems: Coping With Device Interoperability and Changing Acquisition Conditions
Jan 2010
The performance of biometric systems can be significantly affected by changes in signal quality. In this paper, two types of changes are considered: change in acquisition environment and in...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
Handling High Dimensionality in Biometric Classification With Multiple Quality Measures Using Locality Preserving Projection
Apr 2010
The use of quality measures in biometrics is rapidly becoming the standard strategy for improving performance of biometric systems, especially in the presence of variable environmental conditions...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
A Family of Methods for Quality-Based Multimodal Biometric Fusion Using Generative Classifiers
Aug 2008
Automatically verifying the identity of a person by means of biometrics (e.g., face and fingerprint) is an important application in peoples' day-to-day activities such as accessing banking...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
Quality Controlled Multimodal Fusion of Biometric Experts
Nov 2007
The quality of biometric samples used by multi-modal biometric experts to produce matching scores has a significant impact on their fusion. The authors address the problem of quality controlled...
Provided by University of Surrey
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White Papers
Probabilistic Orientation Field Estimation for Fingerprint Enhancement and Verification
Aug 2008
The authors present a novel probabilistic method to estimate the orientation field in fingerprint images. Traditional approach based on the smoothing of local image gradients usually generates...
Provided by DigitalPersona
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White Papers
PQR: Finding the PKI Needles in the Internet Haystack
Feb 2008
Public-key cryptography can uniquely enable trust within distributed settings. Employing it usually requires deploying a set of tools and services collectively known as a Public Key Infrastructure...
Provided by Dartmouth College
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Webcasts
EDI eCommerce Strategy and Roadmap - New and Enhanced Solutions for Your Advantage
Jan 2011
What is new with EDI eCommerce. New enhancements make the product easier to use. Does one have a need for less technical personnel to manage EDI data? Does one have requirements to process XML...
Provided by QAD
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White Papers
A Generic Framework for Implementing Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries
Feb 2011
In this paper, the authors present an effective framework for adapting electronic commerce and e-commerce services in developing countries like Bangladesh. The proposed scheme takes the major...
Provided by Khulna University
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White Papers
Public-Key Infrastructure Technology and Concepts
Jan 2001
This paper is intended t help explain general PKI technology and concepts. For the sake of rientation,it also touches on policies and standards and on some of the new and exciting applications...
Provided by Certicom
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White Papers
Understanding Cognitive and Affective States Using Eyelid Movements
Jul 2007
Biometrics related to the eye region is of particular interest in a range of applications - from identification to adaptive interfaces. This paper describes a technique for monitoring dynamic eye...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Universal Background Models for Dynamic Signature Verification
Jul 2007
The applicability of Universal Background Models as a score normalization technique is studied for the case of dynamic signature verification. This technique is commonly used in speaker...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
On Model-Based Analysis of Ear Biometrics
Jul 2007
Ears are a new biometric with major advantage in that they appear to maintain their structure with increasing age. Most current approaches are holistic and describe the ear by its general...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Fingerprint Readers: Vulnerabilities to Front- and Back- end Attacks
Jul 2007
This letter examines the applicability of cardiac signals for biometric recognition. Two physiological signals are considered, namely the Electro Cardio Gram (ECG) and the Phono Car Diogram (PCG)...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Illumination Invariant Face Recognition: A Survey
Jul 2007
The illumination variation problem is one of the well-known problems in face recognition in uncontrolled environment. In this paper an extensive and up-to-date survey of the existing techniques to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Biometric Systematic Uncertainty and the User
Jul 2007
Often biometric technology and system evaluators are concerned with capturing accurate performance estimates that predict performance for target populations of interest. Occasionally, predictions,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Comparison of Fingerprint Quality Measures Using an Optical and a Capacitive Sensor
Jul 2007
Although several image quality measures have been proposed for fingerprints, no work has taken into account the differences among capture devices, and how these differences impact on the image...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Evolution Strategies for Matching Active Appearance Models to Human Faces
Jul 2007
Face registration is a challenging problem due in part to the non-rigid nature of human faces. Active Appearance Models (AAMs) have been proposed as a useful technique for face registration in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Robust Gray-Scale Distribution Estimation for Contactless Palmprint Recognition
Mar 2010
Palmprint identification has emerged as one of the popular and promising biometric modalities for forensic and commercial applications. In recent years the contactless system emerges as a viable...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Verifying Fingerprint Match by Local Correlation Methods
Jul 2007
Most fingerprint matching algorithms are based on finding correspondences between minutiae in two fingerprints. In this paper the authors present a modification of minutiae matching method, which...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Cost Curve Analysis of Biometric System Performance
Jun 2009
Biometric classification algorithms typically offer a range of performance characteristics which balance false non-match and false match rates. Nevertheless, the threshold which meets application...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Comparing Verification Performance of Kids and Adults for Fingerprint, Palmprint, Hand-Geometry and Digitprint Biometrics
Jun 2009
With the large scale deployment of biometrics for access control in private and public places, systems are faced the challenge of processing a diverse range of people. Most systems have been well...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Statistical Analysis of Fingerprint Sensor Interoperability Performance
Jun 2009
The proliferation of networked authentication systems has put focus on the issue of interoperability. Fingerprint sensors are based on a variety of different technologies that introduce...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Spectral Minutiae Representations of Fingerprints Enhanced by Quality Data
Jun 2009
Many fingerprint recognition systems are based on minutiae matching. However, the recognition accuracy of minutiae-based matching algorithms is highly dependent on the fingerprint minutiae...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multiclass mõ-Granular Soft Support Vector Machine: A Case Study in Dynamic Classifier Selection for Multispectral Face Recognition
Aug 2008
This paper presents a novel formulation of multiclass support vector machine by integrating the concepts of soft labels and granular computing. The proposed multiclass mõ-granular soft support...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
Algorithms and Approaches of Proxy Signature: A Survey
Feb 2008
Digital signature is a cryptographic means through which the authenticity, data integrity and senders non-repudiation can be verified. Typically, digital signature of a document is a piece of...
Provided by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
-
White Papers
Tardos fingerprinting is better than we thought
Jun 2008
Tardos has proposed a randomized fingerprinting code that is provably secure against collusion attacks. The authors revisit his scheme and show that it has significantly better performance than...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Weighted Attribute Fusion Model for Face Recognition
Jul 2010
Recognizing a face based on its attributes is an easy task for a human to perform as it is a cognitive process. In recent years, Face Recognition is achieved with different kinds of facial...
Provided by Anna University
-
White Papers
Designated Confirmer Signatures With Unified Verification
Mar 2011
After the introduction of Designated Confirmer Signatures (DCS) by Chaum in 1994, considerable researches have been done to build generic schemes from standard digital signatures and construct...
Provided by University of Birmingham
-
White Papers
New Cryptosystems From CSP-Based Self-Distributive Systems
Apr 2010
The authors propose new cryptosystems based on self-distributive systems that are defined by Conjugator Searching Problems (CSP) in noncommutative groups. Under the newly developed cryptographic...
Provided by University of Tsukuba
-
White Papers
Classification of Startle Eyeblink Metrics Using Neural Networks
Mar 2009
In this paper, the authors show the feasibility of using high-speed video for measurement of startle eyeblinks as a new augmentative modality for biometric security, as blinks can reveal emotional...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Feature Based RDWT Watermarking for Multimodal Biometric System
Jun 2007
This paper presents a 3-level RDWT biometric watermarking algorithm to embed the voice biometric MFC coefficients in a color face image of the same individual for increased robustness, security...
Provided by West Virginia University
-
White Papers
Multi-Verifier Signatures
Aug 2009
Multi-verifier signatures generalize traditional digital signatures to a secret-key setting. Just like digital signatures, these signatures are both transferable and secure under arbitrary...
Provided by Cornell University
-
White Papers
Boosting LDA With Regularization on MPCA Features for Gait Recognition
Jul 2007
In this paper, the authors present a boosted Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) solution with regularization on features extracted by the Multilinear Principal Component Analysis (MPCA) for the...
Provided by University of Toronto
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A Novel in E-Voting in Egypt
Nov 2007
Election is a fundamental instrument of democracy that provides an official mechanism for people to convey their views to their government by democratic means. E-voting becomes the most important...
Provided by Royal Institute of British Architects
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Towards a General Definition of Biometric Systems
Oct 2009
A foundation for closing the gap between biometrics in the narrower and the broader perspective is presented trough a conceptualization of biometric systems in both perspectives. A clear...
Provided by University of Zagreb
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Multi-Modal Biometric Verification Based on FAR-Score Normalization
Apr 2008
Fusion different biometrics is an effective way to design a biometric system with robust performance. To do this, normalization functions are employed. However, these functions can not follow the...
Provided by Chinese Academy of Sciences
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An Insight to Build an E-Commerce Website With OSCommerce
May 2011
Many people who use computers in their day to day life to conduct their business, don't have time or spend good time to develop clear idea or to leverage the latest internet applications or...
Provided by PES Institute of Technology
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Intelligent Mobile Search Oriented to Global e-Commerce
Jun 2009
In this paper the authors propose a novel approach for searching e-Commerce products using a mobile phone, illustrated by a prototype eCoMobile. This approach aims to globalize the mobile search...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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Video-Based Camera Tracking Using Rotation-Discriminative Template Matching
Feb 2009
This paper presents a video-based camera tracker that combines marker-based and feature point-based cues in a particle filter framework. The framework relies on their complementary performance....
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Robust Infants Face Tracking Using Active Appearance Models: A Mixed-State CONDENSATION Approach
Sep 2007
In this paper a new extension of the CONDENSATION algorithm, with application to infants face tracking, will be introduced. In this paper the authors address the problem of tracking a face and its...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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A Comparison of Java Cards: State-of-Affairs 2006
May 2010
This paper presents the results of a comparative study of some popular Java Cards on the market. Eight different cards from four manufacturers have been considered. The analysis has been done at...
Provided by Radboud University
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Face Recognition System Using HGPP and Adaptive Binning Method
Jan 2011
Over the last decade, human face recognition has attracted significant attention because of its wide range of applications such as criminal identification, credit card verification, security...
Provided by Anna University
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SSL/TLS Session-Aware User Authentication Using a GAA Bootstrapped Key
Feb 2011
Most SSL/TLS-based electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications (including Internet banking) are vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Such attacks arise since users are often unable to...
Provided by South China University of Technology
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A Novel Reputation-Based Model for e-Commerce
May 2011
Reputation systems are very important in e-markets, where they help buyers to decide whether to purchase a product. Since a higher reputation often represents higher profit, malicious users may...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
