Biometrics person authentication:from theory to practice

Perronnin, Florent; Junqua, Jean-Claude; Dugelay, Jean-Luc
EURASIP Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, March 2005

Biometrics, which refers to identifying an individual based on his/her physical or behavior characteristics, is an emerging topic in the field of signal processing. Nevertheless, biometric applications have failed to become as widespread as once anticipated. After a very brief review of the field of biometrics, the present tutorial focuses on three main aspects of biometrics: maturity of technologies and algorithms, applications, and evaluations.


DOI
Type:
Tutorial
Date:
2005-03-01
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
1830
Copyright:
© EURASIP. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in EURASIP Newsletter, Volume 16, Number 1, March 2005 and is available at : http://www.eurasip-newsletter.org/

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