Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783642540790)

This volume offers a guide to the state of the art in the fast evolving field of biometric recognition to newcomers and experienced practitioners. It is focused on the emerging strategies to perform biometric recognition under uncontrolled data acquisition conditions. The mainstream research work in this field is presented in an organized manner, so the reader can easily follow the trends that best suits her/his interests in this growing field. The book chapters cover the recent advances in less controlled / covert data acquisition frameworks, segmentation of poor quality biometric data, biometric data quality assessment, normalization of poor quality biometric data. contactless biometric recognition strategies, biometric recognition robustness, data resolution, illumination, distance, pose, motion, occlusions, multispectral biometric recognition, multimodal biometrics, fusion at different levels, high confidence automatic surveillance.

Author: Jacob Scharcanski
ISBN-10: 3642540791
ISBN-13: 9783642540790
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2014
Pages: 331
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d