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Record Nr.

UNISA996465780803316

Titolo

Advanced Studies in Biometrics [[electronic resource] ] : Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero, Italy, June 2-6, 2003. Revised Selected Lectures and Papers / / edited by Massimo Tistarelli, Josef Bigun, Enrico Grosso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005

ISBN

9783540286387

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 164 p.)

Collana

Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics ; ; 3161

Disciplina

006.4

Soggetti

Pattern recognition

Optical data processing

Management information systems

Computer science

Computer graphics

Pattern Recognition

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Management of Computing and Information Systems

Computer Graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Combining Biometric Evidence for Person Authentication -- Combining Biometric Evidence for Person Authentication -- Biometric Gait Recognition -- A Tutorial on Fingerprint Recognition -- Spiral Topologies for Biometric Recognition -- Statistical Learning Approaches with Application to Face Detection -- Hand Detection by Direct Convexity Estimation -- Template-Based Hand Detection and Tracking -- Student Papers -- 3D Face Recognition Using Stereoscopic Vision -- Selection of Location, Frequency, and Orientation Parameters of 2D Gabor Wavelets for Face Recognition -- A Face Recognition System Based on Local Feature Characterization -- Influence of Location over Several Classifiers in 2D and 3D Face Verification.

Sommario/riassunto

Automatic person authentication, the identification and verification of



an individual as such, has increasingly been acknowledged as a significant aspect of various security applications. Various recognition and identification systems have been based on biometrics utilizing biometric features such as fingerprint, face, retina scans, iris patterns, hand geometry, DNA traces, gait, and others. This book originates from an international summer school on biometrics, held in Alghero, Italy, in June 2003. The seven revised tutorial lectures by leading researchers introduce the reader to biometrics-based person authentication, fingerprint recognition, gait recognition, various aspects of face recognition and face detection, topologies for biometric recognition, and hand detection. Also included are the four best selected student papers, all dealing with face recognition.