Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems (Hardcover)

Biometrics technology continues to stride forward with its wider acceptance and its real need in various new security facets of modern society. From simply logging on to a laptop to crossing the border of a country, biometrics is being called upon to meet the growing challenges of identity management.

With contributions from academia and industry by leading international authorities in the field, this unique book presents a comprehensive treatment of biometrics and offers coverage of the entire gamut of topics in the field, including data acquisition, pattern-matching algorithms, and issues that impact at the system level, such as standards, security, networks, and databases. It has been organized under three sections: sensors, advances in biometric matching algorithms, and topics that deal with issues at the systems level.

Key features:

• Includes new algorithmic advances, including physiological biometrics (face from video, iris at a distance) and behavioral (handwriting, voice) and a strikingly novel modality in headprint biometrics

• Contains new modalities for research, such as infrared and multispectral imaging

• Presents several chapters on the much overlooked area relating to the sensors themselves for the various biometric modalities

• Emphasizes the advances and cutting-edge technologies throughout

• Discusses systems level both from a human-factors point of view and the perspective of networking, databases, privacy and anti-spoofing

• Incorporates chapters devoted to touchless image capture, ultrasonic imaging and swipe methods

Written for researchers and advanced students, this much needed concise volume is an ideal tool to use as a ready reference and captures the very latest in state-of-the-art research, providing readers with a broader and deeper understanding of the topic.

Dr Nalini K. Ratha is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York. He co-edited the successful Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems and also co-authored A Guide to Biometrics Selection and System Design

Professor Venu Govindaraju is Director at the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS), University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

生物識別技術在現代社會的各個新安全領域中，因其廣泛接受和實際需求而不斷前進。從登錄筆記型電腦到越過國境，生物識別被要求應對日益增長的身份管理挑戰。

本書由該領域的國際領先專家在學術界和工業界的貢獻組成，提供了對生物識別的全面介紹，並涵蓋了該領域的所有主題，包括數據收集、模式匹配算法以及影響系統層面的問題，如標準、安全、網絡和數據庫。本書分為三個部分：傳感器、生物識別匹配算法的進展以及處理系統層面問題的主題。

主要特點：
• 包括新的算法進展，包括生理生物識別（從視頻中的臉部、遠距離虹膜）和行為生物識別（手寫、語音），以及頭部印記生物識別中引人注目的新模態
• 包含紅外和多光譜成像等研究的新模態
• 提供了幾個關於各種生物識別模態的傳感器本身常被忽視的章節
• 強調先進技術和尖端技術
• 從人因角度和網絡、數據庫、隱私和防欺騙的角度討論系統層面
• 包括專門討論無接觸圖像捕獲、超聲波成像和滑動方法的章節

本書針對研究人員和高級學生，是一個非常需要的簡明工具，可作為即時參考，並捕捉到最新的最先進研究，為讀者提供更廣泛和深入的主題理解。

Nalini K. Ratha博士是紐約IBM Thomas J. Watson研究中心的研究員。他共同編輯了成功的《自動指紋識別系統》，並共同撰寫了《生物識別選擇和系統設計指南》。

Venu Govindaraju教授是紐約州立大學水牛城分校統一生物識別和傳感器中心（CUBS）的主任。