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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Comparative Study of Fingerprint Image-Quality Estimation Methods
Dec 2007
One of the open issues in fingerprint verification is the lack of robustness against image-quality degradation. Poor-quality images result in spurious and missing features, thus degrading the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
HMM-Based On-Line Signature Verification: Feature Extraction and Signature Modeling
Dec 2007
A function-based approach to on-line signature verification is presented. The system uses a set of time sequences and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Development and evaluation experiments are...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Iris Liveness Detection Based on Quality Related Features
Dec 2011
A new liveness detection scheme for iris based on quality related measures is presented. The novel anti-spoofing technique is tested on a database comprising over 1,600 real and fake (high quality...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Predicting Iris Vulnerability to Direct Attacks Based on Quality Related Features
Jul 2011
A new vulnerability prediction scheme for direct attacks to iris recognition systems is presented. The objective of the novel technique, based on a 22 quality related parameterization, is to...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Hill-Climbing Attack Based on the Uphill Simplex Algorithm and Its Application to Signature Verification
Mar 2011
A general hill-climbing attack to biometric systems based on a modification of the downhill simplex algorithm is presented. The scores provided by the matcher are used in this approach to adapt...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Towards a Better Understanding of the Performance of Latent Fingerprint Recognition in Realistic Forensic Conditions
May 2010
This paper studies the performance of a state-of-the-art fingerprint recognition technology, in several practical scenarios of interest in forensic casework. First, the differences in performance...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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White Papers
Kinematical Analysis of Synthetic Dynamic Signatures Using the Sigma-Lognormal Model
Jan 2011
The kinematical information present in synthetically generated signatures is analyzed using the Sigma-Lognormal model and compared to the kinematical properties of real samples. Experiments are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Global Security Using Human Face Understanding Under Vision Ubiquitous Architecture System
Jun 2009
Different methods containing biometric algorithms are presented for the representation of eigenfaces detection including face recognition, are identification and verification. The theme of this...
Provided by Kyungpook National University
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White Papers
Model Based Security Policy Assessment for e-Business Environment
Dec 2009
The key to profitability for e-business is ensuring data integrity, service availability, and user information confidentiality along the entire e-services chain. Both staffs and IT system...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Walsh-Hadamard Transform for Facial Feature Extraction in Face Recognition
Sep 2010
This Paper proposes a new facial feature extraction approach, Wash-Hadamard Transform (WHT). This approach is based on correlation between local pixels of the face image. Its primary advantage is...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Automatic Fingerprint Classification Using Graph Theory
Sep 2010
Using efficient classification methods is necessary for automatic fingerprint recognition system. This paper introduces a new structural approach to fingerprint classification by using the...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
A New Approach for the Fingerprint Classification Based on Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix
Sep 2010
In this paper, the authors propose an approach for the classification of fingerprint databases. It is based on the fact that a fingerprint image is composed of regular texture regions that can be...
Provided by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
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White Papers
Token-Based Fingerprint Authentication
Oct 2008
There are several shortcomings with the traditional token based authentication using magnetic strip card with PIN/password protection such as easy to duplicate and from forgotten to stolen...
Provided by Bentham Science Publishers
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White Papers
A Multibiometric Speaker Authentication System With SVM Audio Reliability Indicator
Nov 2009
Performances of biometric speaker authentication systems are good in clean conditions but their reliability drops severely in noisy environments. Implementation of multibiometric systems using...
Provided by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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White Papers
Payment Strategies for eCommerce Growth
Jul 2010
eCommerce sales climbed 11 percent in 2009, even as total retail sales fell 6 percent, and analysts are forecasting continued strong growth in eCommerce sales over the next five years. Today, 63...
Provided by First Data
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White Papers
A Multi-Attribute Assessment Method for e-Commerce Risks
Dec 2009
Based on multi-attribute decision making theory, a multi-attribute assessment framework for E- commerce risks is presented. The paper applies an improved Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Periocular Biometrics in the Visible Spectrum: A Feasibility Study
Sep 2009
Periocular biometric refers to the facial region in the immediate vicinity of the eye. Acquisition of the periocular biometric does not require high user cooperation and close capture distance...
Provided by Michigan State University
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White Papers
Decision-Level Fusion Strategies for Correlated Biometric Classifiers
Jun 2008
The focus of this paper is on designing decision-level fusion strategies for correlated biometric classifiers. In this regard, two different strategies are investigated. In the first strategy, an...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multibiometric Systems: Overview, Case Studies and Open Issues
Mar 2009
Information fusion refers to the reconciliation of evidence presented by multiple sources of information in order to generate a decision. In the context of biometrics, evidence reconciliation...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
Quality Based Rank-Level Fusion in Multibiometric Systems
Sep 2009
Multibiometric systems fuse evidences from multiple biometric sources typically resulting in better recognition accuracy. These systems can consolidate information at various levels. For systems...
Provided by Cairo University
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White Papers
Exploiting the "Doddington Zoo" Effect in Biometric Fusion
Sep 2009
Recent research in biometrics has suggested the existence of the "Biometric Menagerie" in which weak users contribute disproportionately to the error rate (FAR and FRR) of a biometric system. The...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
Online Learning in Biometrics: A Case Study in Face Classifier Update
Sep 2009
In large scale applications, hundreds of new subjects may be regularly enrolled in a biometric system. To account for the variations in data distribution caused by these new enrollments, biometric...
Provided by West Virginia University
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White Papers
Fingerprint Identification and Verification System by Minutiae Extraction Using Artificial Neural Network
Aug 2010
The proposed Fingerprint Identification and verification System is biometric identification methodology that uses digital imaging technology to obtain, store, and analyze fingerprint data. Here...
Provided by AICIT
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White Papers
Using Height Sensors for Biometric Identification in Multi-Resident Homes
Feb 2010
In this paper the authors evaluate the use of height for biometric identification of residents, by mounting ultrasonic distance sensors above the doorways in a home. Height sensors are cheap, are...
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
The Requirements for Building an e-Commerce Infrastructure
Nov 2009
This paper will present all requirements to build a reliable e-commerce infrastructure in Jordan. Ecommerce is one of the main desired outcomes from a state internet readiness. Despite the fact...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Speech Recognition: Accelerating the Adoption of Electronic Health Records
Dec 2009
Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems offer the potential to dramatically improve the cost and quality of healthcare. However, despite their potential and market forces favoring their adoption,...
Provided by Nuance Communications
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White Papers
Key Attestation from Trusted Execution Environments
Jul 2010
Credential platforms implemented on top of Trusted Execution Environments (TrEEs) allow users to store and use their credentials, e.g., cryptographic keys or user passwords, securely. One...
Provided by Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
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White Papers
Strategy-Based Behavioural Biometrics: A Novel Approach to Automated Identification
Mar 2009
Behavioural intrusion detection is a frequently used for insuring network security. This paper expends behaviour based intrusion detection approach to a new domain of game networks. Specifically,...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
An Automated System for Visual Biometrics
Feb 2008
Biometrics has been a topic of great interest since the advent of the information age and will soon lead to a safer and simpler lifestyle where passcodes and keys are inherent to the user. This...
Provided by Northwestern University
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White Papers
Identifying Game Players With Mouse Biometrics
Dec 2008
Recent work in mouse movement analysis has determined that, with sufficient data, users can be uniquely identified solely by their mouse movements. This paper considers the domain of video games...
Provided by University of Washington
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White Papers
Face Biometrics: A Longitudinal Study
May 2009
Faces change over time and this has been problematic for face biometric systems. Little research has been conducted in this area and this study reviews two face biometric systems,...
Provided by Pace University
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White Papers
Multimodal Biometrics Fusion Using Correlation Filter Bank
Jun 2008
In this paper, a novel class-dependence feature analysis method based on Correlation Filter Bank (CFB) technique for effective multimodal biometrics fusion at the feature level is developed. In...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Verifying Liveness by Multiple Experts in Face Biometrics
Aug 2008
Resisting spoofing attempts via photographs and video playbacks is a vital issue for the success of face biometrics. Yet, the "Liveness" topic has only been partially studied in the past. This...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Bridging Biometrics and Forensics
Feb 2008
This paper is a survey on biometrics and forensics, especially on the techniques and applications of face recognition in forensics. This paper describes the differences and connections between...
Provided by Syracuse University
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White Papers
Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys From Biometrics and Other Noisy Data
Jan 2008
This paper provides formal definitions and efficient secure techniques for turning noisy information into keys usable for any cryptographic application, and, in particular, reliably and securely...
Provided by New York University
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White Papers
Redundancy and Diversity Measure Inspired Biometrics Fusion
May 2010
In many identification problems, finding a duplicate using biometrics is very challenging task because of the size of the database and the errors related to the core biometrics engine. Fusion of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Person Identification Using Ear Biometrics
Aug 2007
In this paper, a method to recognize human using ear biometrics has been proposed. Traditional image-based approaches to person identification almost exclusively employ front views of the...
Provided by Khulna University
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White Papers
The New Monetization of e-Commerce 3.0
Nov 2010
The total elimination of friction in e-Commerce transactions and a core focus on deflowering an enhanced customer experience are the driving forces behind e-Commerce 3.0. Customers are already...
Provided by Plimus
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White Papers
Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Smart Cardswithout Coprocessors
Oct 2009
This contribution describes how an elliptic curve cryptosystem can be implemented on very low cost microprocessors with reasonable performance. They focus in this paper on the Intel 8051 family of...
Provided by Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Whitepapers
Implementing ActivIdentity Smart Cards for Use With HP Compaq T5720 Thin Clients and HP Blade PCs
Aug 2007
Smart cards can strengthen user authentication in a corporate network by offering strong, 2-factor authentication to offset weak passwords or cumbersome authentication policies requiring frequent...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
PrePaid Smart Cards Exploiting the Global Smart Card Infrastructure
Jun 2008
The growth in prepaid card products, notably in the US, has been phenomenal over recent years - annual global sales are predicted to top US$150bn by 2009. While the overwhelming bulk of that...
Provided by Aconite Technology
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White Papers
CV Act Library/sc the Cryptographic Library for Smart Cards and Other Security Tokens
Aug 2009
With cv act library/sc crypto vision offers a cryptographic library which is especially optimized for the integration of security ICs, just as they are used in smart cards, SIM modules, NFC and...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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White Papers
Side Channel Attacks on Smart Cards
Aug 2009
Countermeasures against side channel attacks - e.g. power attacks, based on an analysis of the power consumption, or electromagnetic attacks, which are based on the measurement of electromagnetic...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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White Papers
Cv Act Sc/interface Universal Middleware for Smart Cards and Security Tokens
Aug 2009
With cv act sc/interface, cryptovision offers a seamless integrated middleware for smart cards and security tokens. Because cv act sc/interface implements the PKCS#11 and PKCS#15 (ISO7816-15)...
Provided by cv cryptovision
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Case Studies
1-800-FLOWERS.COM: Creating an e-Commerce Platform for the Future
Jan 2009
1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. is the world's largest florist and gift shop, with revenues approaching US$1 billion. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. needed to replace multiple, diverse, e-commerce systems with a...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Electronic Data Verification for a Govt. Development Department in North America
Aug 2009
The customer, a government development department in North America, was required to make dramatic changes to the manner in which grants related to modernization were allocated to Housing...
Provided by Satyam Computer Services
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White Papers
Technology Options for Biometrics
Aug 2010
To use biometrics as authentication mechanism, there is a 3 step process required: an enrolment step, verification request step, and verification result step. Enrolment is the process of...
Provided by Blue Orca
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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
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
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
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
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
-
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
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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
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
-
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
-
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
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
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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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 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
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
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
-
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
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
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
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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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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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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A Comparative Study of Fingerprint Image-Quality Estimation Methods
Dec 2007
One of the open issues in fingerprint verification is the lack of robustness against image-quality degradation. Poor-quality images result in spurious and missing features, thus degrading the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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HMM-Based On-Line Signature Verification: Feature Extraction and Signature Modeling
Dec 2007
A function-based approach to on-line signature verification is presented. The system uses a set of time sequences and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Development and evaluation experiments are...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Iris Liveness Detection Based on Quality Related Features
Dec 2011
A new liveness detection scheme for iris based on quality related measures is presented. The novel anti-spoofing technique is tested on a database comprising over 1,600 real and fake (high quality...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Predicting Iris Vulnerability to Direct Attacks Based on Quality Related Features
Jul 2011
A new vulnerability prediction scheme for direct attacks to iris recognition systems is presented. The objective of the novel technique, based on a 22 quality related parameterization, is to...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Hill-Climbing Attack Based on the Uphill Simplex Algorithm and Its Application to Signature Verification
Mar 2011
A general hill-climbing attack to biometric systems based on a modification of the downhill simplex algorithm is presented. The scores provided by the matcher are used in this approach to adapt...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Towards a Better Understanding of the Performance of Latent Fingerprint Recognition in Realistic Forensic Conditions
May 2010
This paper studies the performance of a state-of-the-art fingerprint recognition technology, in several practical scenarios of interest in forensic casework. First, the differences in performance...
Provided by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
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Kinematical Analysis of Synthetic Dynamic Signatures Using the Sigma-Lognormal Model
Jan 2011
The kinematical information present in synthetically generated signatures is analyzed using the Sigma-Lognormal model and compared to the kinematical properties of real samples. Experiments are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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A Comparative Evaluation of Finger-Drawn Graphical Password Verification Methods
Jan 2011
Doodle-based graphical passwords represent a challenging scenario due to their high variability and the tendency to be graphically simple. Despite this, doodle-based authentication using...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
