Biometric books, technical guides and reports

Biometric systems books

Practical Biometrics Practical Biometrics examines the many issues raised by the application of biometric technologies to practical situations, with specific regard to wide scale public applications. It acts as a practical guide to implementation, identifying the associated issues around: Scalability in applications featuring biometric verification techniques - Interoperability, both from a technical and operational perspective - Ethnicity and the associated implications for biometric verification checks - Failure to enroll and other error conditions - User psychology, the less obvious, but vitally important aspects of operational performance.	Biometric Systems This book provides practitioners with an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. It covers 3 main topics: key biometric technologies, testing & management issues, and the legal and system considerations of biometric systems for personal verification/identification. It focuses on the 4 most widely used technologies - speech, fingerprint, iris & face recognition.
Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems contains over 30 contributions from leading European researchers showing the present state and future directions of computer science research. The Information Technology Security section covers three important areas of security engineering in information systems: software security, public key infrastructure and the design of new cryptographic protocols and algorithms. The Biometric Systems section comprises 11 contributions dealing with face picture analysis and recognition systems.	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 examines the factors involved in choosing between different biometrics. It also delves into practical applications and covers a number of topics critical for successful system integration. These include recognition accuracy, total cost of ownership, acquisition and processing speed, intrinsic and system security, privacy and legal requirements, and user acceptance.
Implementing Biometric Security Biometrics authentication, which relies on fingerprints, speech, or other physical characteristics, is an increasingly important means of protecting critical data. Implementing Biometric Security gives security professionals specific guidelines, applications, and procedures for implementing a biometric security system in a LAN, WAN, or wireless infrastructure. This book covers fingerprint identification, hand geometry, speaker recognition, face location, retina scanning, and multibiometrics. The companion Web site contains articles, papers, source code, and product guides.	Biometric Inverse Problems Traditional methods of biometric analysis are unable to overcome the limitations of existing approaches, mainly due to the lack of standards for input data, privacy concerns involving use and storage of actual biometric data, and unacceptable accuracy. Exploring solutions to inverse problems in biometrics transcends such limits and allows rich analysis of biometric information and systems for improved performance and testing. Biometric Inverse Problems provides the first comprehensive treatment of biometric data synthesis and modelling. This reference comprises eight self-contained chapters that cover the principles of biometric inverse problems; basics of data structure design; new automatic synthetic signature, fingerprint, and iris design; synthetic faces and DNA; and new tools for biometrics based on Voronoi diagrams.