Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Scharcanski, Jacob (Editor), Proença, Hugo (Editor), Du, Eliza (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 292
• Subjects: Engineering.; Biometrics (Biology).; System safety.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Biometrics.; Security Science and Technology.

This volume offers a guide to the state of the art in the fast evolving field of biometric recognition to newcomers and experienced practitioners. It is focused on the emerging strategies to perform biometric recognition under uncontrolled data acquisition conditions. The mainstream research work in...

Table of Contents:

• Data and Information Dimensionality in Non-Cooperative Face Recognition
• Remote Identification of Faces
• Recognizing Altered Facial Appearances Due to Aging and Disguise
• Using Score Fusion for Improving the Performance of Multispectral Face Recognition
• Unconstrained ear processing
• Feature Quality-based Unconstrained Eye Recognition
• Speed-invariant Gait Recognition
• Quality Induced Multi classifier Fingerprint Verification using Extended Feature Set
• Quality Measures for Online Handwritten Signatures
• Human tracking in non-cooperative scenarios.