Advanced Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition Methods for Biometrics
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2008:142013
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A Novel Retinal Identification System
This paper presents a novel biometric identification system with high performance based on the features obtained from human retinal images. This system is composed of three principal modules including blood ve...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2008:280635 -
Human Gait Recognition Based on Multiview Gait Sequences
Most of the existing gait recognition methods rely on a single view, usually the side view, of the walking person. This paper investigates the case in which several views are available for gait recognition. It...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2008:629102 -
Unobtrusive Multimodal Biometric Authentication: The HUMABIO Project Concept
Human Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and Behavioural Analysis (HUMABIO) (2007) is an EU Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) where new types of biometrics are combined with sta...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008 2008:265767 -
Biometric Methods for Secure Communications in Body Sensor Networks: Resource-Efficient Key Management and Signal-Level Data Scrambling
As electronic communications become more prevalent, mobile and universal, the threats of data compromises also accordingly loom larger. In the context of a body sensor network (BSN), which permits pervasive mo...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:529879 -
Integrating Illumination, Motion, and Shape Models for Robust Face Recognition in Video
The use of video sequences for face recognition has been relatively less studied compared to image-based approaches. In this paper, we present an analysis-by-synthesis framework for face recognition from video se...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:469698 -
Person-Independent Head Pose Estimation Using Biased Manifold Embedding
Head pose estimation has been an integral problem in the study of face recognition systems and human-computer interfaces, as part of biometric applications. A fine estimate of the head pose angle is necessary ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:283540 -
Comparing Robustness of Pairwise and Multiclass Neural-Network Systems for Face Recognition
Noise, corruptions, and variations in face images can seriously hurt the performance of face-recognition systems. To make these systems robust to noise and corruptions in image data, multiclass neural networks...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:468693 -
A Statistical Multiresolution Approach for Face Recognition Using Structural Hidden Markov Models
This paper introduces a novel methodology that combines the multiresolution feature of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) with the local interactions of the facial structures expressed through the structural...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:675787 -
Simultaneous Eye Tracking and Blink Detection with Interactive Particle Filters
We present a system that simultaneously tracks eyes and detects eye blinks. Two interactive particle filters are used for this purpose, one for the closed eyes and the other one for the open eyes. Each particl...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:823695 -
A Full-Body Layered Deformable Model for Automatic Model-Based Gait Recognition
This paper proposes a full-body layered deformable model (LDM) inspired by manually labeled silhouettes for automatic model-based gait recognition from part-level gait dynamics in monocular video sequences. Th...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:261317 -
A Study on Iris Localization and Recognition on Mobile Phones
A new iris recognition method for mobile phones based on corneal specular reflections (SRs) is discussed. We present the following three novelties over previous research. First, in case of user with glasses, m...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:281943 -
Face Recognition Incorporating Ancillary Information
Due to vast variations of extrinsic and intrinsic imaging conditions, face recognition remained to be a challenging computer vision problem even today. This is particularly true when the passive imaging approa...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:312849 -
Unobtrusive Biometric System Based on Electroencephalogram Analysis
Features extracted from electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings have proved to be unique enough between subjects for biometric applications. We show here that biometry based on these recordings offers a novel wa...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:143728 -
Pose-Encoded Spherical Harmonics for Face Recognition and Synthesis Using a Single Image
Face recognition under varying pose is a challenging problem, especially when illumination variations are also present. In this paper, we propose to address one of the most challenging scenarios in face recogn...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:748483 -
Analysis of Human Electrocardiogram for Biometric Recognition
Security concerns increase as the technology for falsification advances. There are strong evidences that a difficult to falsify biometric trait, the human heartbeat, can be used for identity recognition. Exist...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2007 2008:148658