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Recent Advances in Biometric Systems: A Signal Processing Perspective

  2. As VLSI technology has been improved, a smart card employing 32-bit processors has been released, and more personal information such as medical, financial data can be stored in the card. Thus, it becomes impor...

    Authors: Daesung Moon, Yongwha Chung, Sung Bum Pan and Jin-Won Park
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:845893
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  3. This paper describes a novel method for representing different facial expressions based on the shape space vector (SSV) of the statistical shape model (SSM) built from 3D facial data. The method relies only on...

    Authors: Wei Quan, Bogdan J. Matuszewski, Lik-Kwan Shark and Djamel Ait-Boudaoud
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:261542
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  4. This paper presents a novel approach for changeable and privacy preserving face recognition. We first introduce a new method of biometric matching using the sorted index numbers (SINs) of feature vectors. Sinc...

    Authors: Yongjin Wang and Dimitrios Hatzinakos
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:260148
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  5. We present a novel online signature verification system based on the Fast Fourier Transform. The advantage of using the Fourier domain is the ability to compactly represent an online signature using a fixed nu...

    Authors: Berrin Yanikoglu and Alisher Kholmatov
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:260516
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  7. Evolutionary computation algorithms have recently been explored to extract features and applied to face recognition. However these methods have high space complexity and thus are not efficient or even impossib...

    Authors: Qijun Zhao, David Zhang, Lei Zhang and Hongtao Lu
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:465193
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  8. The intersubject dependencies of false nonmatch rates were investigated for a minutiae-based biometric authentication process using single enrollment and verification measurements. A large number of genuine co...

    Authors: Jeroen Breebaart, Ton Akkermans and Emile Kelkboom
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:896383
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  9. This paper proposes a novel criterion for an improved writer enrolment based on an entropy measure for online genuine signatures. As online signature is a temporal signal, we measure the time-normalized entrop...

    Authors: Sonia Garcia-Salicetti, Nesma Houmani and Bernadette Dorizzi
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:964746
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  10. This paper presents an alternative approach, where gait is collected by the sensors attached to the person's body. Such wearable sensors record motion (e.g. acceleration) of the body parts during walking. The ...

    Authors: Davrondzhon Gafurov and Einar Snekkenes
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:415817
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  11. Face recognition based on spatial features has been widely used for personal identity verification for security-related applications. Recently, near-infrared spectral reflectance properties of local facial reg...

    Authors: Zhihong Pan, Glenn Healey and Bruce Tromberg
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:943602
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  12. The robustness of a biometric identity verification (IV) system is best evaluated by monitoring its behavior under impostor attacks. Such attacks may include the transformation of one, many, or all of the biom...

    Authors: Walid Karam, Hervé Bredin, Hanna Greige, Gérard Chollet and Chafic Mokbel
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:746481
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  13. The electrocardiogram (ECG) is an emerging novel biometric for human identification. One challenge for the practical use of ECG as a biometric is minimizing the time needed to acquire user data. We present a m...

    Authors: John M. Irvine and Steven A. Israel
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:243215
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  14. This paper presents a new user dependent approach in iris recognition systems. In the proposed method, consistent bits of iris code are calculated, based on the user specifications, using the user's mask. Anot...

    Authors: Nakissa Barzegar and M. Shahram Moin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:980159
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  15. The aim of this work is to carry out a comparative study of face recognition methods that are suitable to work in unconstrained environments. The analyzed methods are selected by considering their performance ...

    Authors: Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae and Mauricio Correa
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:184617
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  16. Biometrics refer to identity verification of individuals based on some physiologic or behavioural characteristics. The typical authentication process of a person consists in extracting a biometric pattern of h...

    Authors: M. Ortega, M. G. Penedo, J. Rouco, N. Barreira and M. J. Carreira
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2009 2009:235746
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