Security and Access Control Using Biometric Technologies

Security and Access Control Using Biometric Technologies presents an introduction to biometrics or the study of recognizing individuals based on their unique physical or behavioral traits, as they... View Video »

Handbook of Biometrics

Biometrics is a rapidly evolving field with applications ranging from accessing one's computer to gaining entry into a country. The deployment of large-scale biometric systems in both commercial and... View Video »

Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age

Discover how to make biometrics -- the technology involving scanning and analyzing unique body characteristics and matching them against information stored in a database -- a part of your overall... View Video »

Biometrics For Dummies

What is biometrics? Whether you're just curious about how biometrics can benefit society or you need to learn how to integrate biometrics with an existing security system in your organization,... View Video »

Our Biometric Future (Critical Cultural Communication)

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another commonly... View Video »

Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation

Biometric Systems provides practitioners with an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. It covers three main topics: key biometric technologies, design and... View Video »

Guide to Biometrics

This complete, technical guide details the principles, methods, technologies, and core ideas used in biometric authentication systems. It explains the definition and measurement of performance and... View Video »

When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity

From digital fingerprinting to iris and retina recognition, biometric identification systems are a multibillion dollar industry and an integral part of post-9/11 national security strategy. Yet these... View Video »

Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems

Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems is organized into nine parts composed of 30 chapters, including an extensive glossary of biometric terms and acronyms. It discusses the current... View Video »

Biometrics: Identity Verification in a Networked World (Technology Briefs Series)

An insight into the biometric industry and the steps for successful deploymentBiometrics
technologies verify identity through characteristics such as fingerprints, voices, and faces. By... View Video »

America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society

The use of biometric technology for identification has gone from Orwellian fantasy to everyday reality. This technology, which verifies or recognizes a person's identity based on physiological,... View Video »

Reengineering of the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) Equipment Tracking Database

The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) manages the Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS). DBIDS captures personal and biometric information to manage DoD-wide access, control, and personnel... View Video »

Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems

Recent advances in biometrics include new developments in sensors, modalities and algorithms. As new sensors are designed, newer challenges emerge in the algorithms for accurate recognition. Written... View Video »

Handbook of Multibiometrics (International Series on Biometrics)

Reliable human authentication schemes are of paramount importance in our highly networked society.  Advances in  biometrics help address the myriad of problems associated with traditional human... View Video »

Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society

Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society is a comprehensive and accessible source of state-of-the-art information on all existing and emerging biometrics: the science of automatically... View Video »

Human Identification Based on Gait (International Series on Biometrics)

Human Identification Based on Gait is the first book to address gait as a biometric. Biometrics is now in a unique position where it affects most people's lives. This is especially true of "gait",... View Video »

Face Biometrics for Personal Identification: Multi - Sensory Multi - Modal Systems

This book provides an ample coverage of theoretical and experimental state-of-the-art work as well as new trends and directions in the biometrics field. It offers students and software engineers a... View Video »

Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing Borders and Bodies (PRIO New Security Studies)

This book examines a series of questions associated with the increasing application and implications of biometrics in contemporary everyday life. View Video »

Vein Pattern Recognition: A Privacy - Enhancing Biometric

As one of the most promising biometric technologies, vein pattern recognition (VPR) is quickly taking root around the world and may soon dominate applications where people focus is key. Among the... View Video »

Audio - and Video - Based Biometric Person Authentication: Third International Conference, AVBPA 2001 Halmstad, Sweden, June 6 - 8, 2001. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, AVBPA 2001, held in Halmstad, Sweden in June 2001.The 51... View Video »

Unconstrained Face Recognition (International Series on Biometrics)

Face recognition has been actively studied over the past decade and continues to be a big research challenge. Just recently, researchers have begun to investigate face recognition under unconstrained... View Video »