Guide to Biometrics

by Jonathan H. Connell, Ruud Bolle, Sharath Pankanti, et al.

Book Overview

Starting with fingerprints more than a hundred years ago, there has been ongoing research in biometrics. Within the last forty years face and speaker recognition have emerged as research topics. However, as recently as a decade ago, biometrics itself did not exist as an independent field. Each of the biometric-related topics grew out of different disciplines. For example, the study of fingerprints came from forensics and pattern recognition, speaker...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387400893
• ISBN13: 9780387400891
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.2"