Biometric Systems

Because of the accelerating progress in biometrics research and the latest nation-state threats to security, this book's publication is not only timely but also much needed. This volume contains seventeen peer-reviewed chapters reporting the state of the art in biometrics research: security issues, signature verification, fingerprint identification, wrist vascular biometrics, ear detection, face detection and identification (including a new survey of face recognition), person re-identification, electrocardiogram (ECT) recognition, and several multi-modal systems. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students, engineers, and researchers interested in understanding and investigating this important field of study

Handbook of Vascular Biometrics

This open access handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of biometrics exploiting the shape of human blood vessels for biometric recognition, i.e. vascular biometrics, including finger vein recognition, hand/palm vein recognition, retina recognition, and sclera recognition. After an introductory chapter summarizing the state of the art in and availability of commercial systems and open datasets/open source software, individual chapters focus on specific aspects of one of the biometric modalities, including questions of usability, security, and privacy. The book features contributions from both academia and major industrial manufacturers

Texture and Colour in Image Analysis

Research in colour and texture has experienced major changes in the last few years. This book presents some recent advances in the field, specifically in the theory and applications of colour texture analysis. This volume also features benchmarks, comparative evaluations and reviews

Finger-Knuckle-Print Image Enhancement Based On brightness preserving dynamic fuzzy histogram equalization and filtering Process

International audienceFinger-knuckle-print (FKP) is considered as one of the emerging hand biometric traits due to its potentiality toward the identification of individuals. However, extracting features out of poor contrast FKP images is the most challenging problem faced in this area. We propose a method for personal recognition using FKP images based on a preprocessing step to improve the contrast of input FKP image and a processing step for features extraction. In the first part, we compared the performances of different histogram equalization-based contrast enhancement algorithms. The enhanced image with better performance is considered in a second step for feature extraction and personal identification. We experimentally compared the proposed approach to other existing approaches in literature using PolyU FKP database framework, and results show that our technique performed favorably

Finger-Knuckle-Print Image Enhancement Based On brightness preserving dynamic fuzzy histogram equalization and filtering Process

International audienceFinger-knuckle-print (FKP) is considered as one of the emerging hand biometric traits due to its potentiality toward the identification of individuals. However, extracting features out of poor contrast FKP images is the most challenging problem faced in this area. We propose a method for personal recognition using FKP images based on a preprocessing step to improve the contrast of input FKP image and a processing step for features extraction. In the first part, we compared the performances of different histogram equalization-based contrast enhancement algorithms. The enhanced image with better performance is considered in a second step for feature extraction and personal identification. We experimentally compared the proposed approach to other existing approaches in literature using PolyU FKP database framework, and results show that our technique performed favorably

Food science sourcebook

2 v. : ill. ; 26 cm2nd edition.Rev. ed. of: Source book for food scientists. c1978"An AVI book."Pt. 1. Terms and descriptions -- pt. 2. Food composition,properties, and general data