Advances in Biometrics

Face Verification Contest 2006.- Performance Characterisation of Face Recognition Algorithms and Their Sensitivity to Severe Illumination Changes.- Face.- Assessment of Blurring and Facial Expression Effects on Facial Image Recognition.- Ambient Illumination Variation Removal by Active Near-IR Imaging.- Rapid 3D Face Data Acquisition Using a Color-Coded Pattern and a Stereo Camera System.- Face Recognition Issues in a Border Control Environment.- Face Recognition Using Ordinal Features.- Specific Sensors for Face Recognition.- Fusion of Infrared and Range Data: Multi-modal Face Images.- Recognize Color Face Images Using Complex Eigenfaces.- Face Verification Based on Bagging RBF Networks.- Improvement on Null Space LDA for Face Recognition: A Symmetry Consideration.- Automatic 3D Face Recognition Using Discriminant Common Vectors.- Face Recognition by Inverse Fisher Discriminant Features.- 3D Face Recognition Based on Facial Shape Indexes with Dynamic Programming.- Revealing the Secret of FaceHashing.- Person Authentication from Video of Faces: A Behavioral and Physiological Approach Using Pseudo Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models.- Cascade AdaBoost Classifiers with Stage Optimization for Face Detection.- Facial Image Reconstruction by SVDD-Based Pattern De-noising.- Pose Estimation Based on Gaussian Error Models.- A Novel PCA-Based Bayes Classifier and Face Analysis.- Highly Accurate and Fast Face Recognition Using Near Infrared Images.- Background Robust Face Tracking Using Active Contour Technique Combined Active Appearance Model.- Ensemble LDA for Face Recognition.- Information Fusion for Local Gabor Features Based Frontal Face Verification.- Using Genetic Algorithms to Find Person-Specific Gabor Feature Detectors for Face Indexing and Recognition.- The Application of Extended Geodesic Distance in Head Poses Estimation.- Improved Parameters Estimating Scheme for E-HMM with Application to Face Recognition.- Component-Based Active Appearance Models for Face Modelling.- Fingerprint.- Incorporating Image Quality in Multi-algorithm Fingerprint Verification.- A New Approach to Fake Finger Detection Based on Skin Distortion.- Model-Based Quality Estimation of Fingerprint Images.- A Statistical Evaluation Model for Minutiae-Based Automatic Fingerprint Verification Systems.- The Surround ImagerTM: A Multi-camera Touchless Device to Acquire 3D Rolled-Equivalent Fingerprints.- Extraction of Stable Points from Fingerprint Images Using Zone Could-be-in Theorem.- Fingerprint Image Enhancement Based on a Half Gabor Filter.- Fake Fingerprint Detection by Odor Analysis.- Ridge-Based Fingerprint Recognition.- Fingerprint Authentication Based on Matching Scores with Other Data.- Effective Fingerprint Classification by Localized Models of Support Vector Machines.- Fingerprint Ridge Distance Estimation: Algorithms and the Performance.- Enhancement of Low Quality Fingerprints Based on Anisotropic Filtering.- K-plet and Coupled BFS: A Graph Based Fingerprint Representation and Matching Algorithm.- A Fingerprint Recognition Algorithm Combining Phase-Based Image Matching and Feature-Based Matching.- Fast and Robust Fingerprint Identification Algorithm and Its Application to Residential Access Controller.- Design of Algorithm Development Interface for Fingerprint Verification Algorithms.- The Use of Fingerprint Contact Area for Biometric Identification.- Preprocessing of a Fingerprint Image Captured with a Mobile Camera.- Iris.- A Phase-Based Iris Recognition Algorithm.- Graph Matching Iris Image Blocks with Local Binary Pattern.- Localized Iris Image Quality Using 2-D Wavelets.- Iris Authentication Using Privatized Advanced Correlation Filter.- Extracting and Combining Multimodal Directional Iris Features.- Fake Iris Detection by Using Purkinje Image.- A Novel Method for Coarse Iris Classification.- Global Texture Analysis of Iris Images for Ethnic Classification.- Modeling Intra-class Variation for Nonideal Iris Recognition.- A Model Based, Anatomy Based Method for Synthesizing Iris Images.- Study and Improvement of Iris Location Algorithm.- Applications of Wavelet Packets Decomposition in Iris Recognition.- Iris Image Real-Time Pre-estimation Using Compound BP Neural Network.- Iris Recognition in Mobile Phone Based on Adaptive Gabor Filter.- Robust and Fast Assessment of Iris Image Quality.- Efficient Iris Recognition Using Adaptive Quotient Thresholding.- A Novel Iris Segmentation Method for Hand-Held Capture Device.- Iris Recognition with Support Vector Machines.- Speech and Signature.- Multi-level Fusion of Audio and Visual Features for Speaker Identification.- Online Signature Verification with New Time Series Kernels for Support Vector Machines.- Generation of Replaceable Cryptographic Keys from Dynamic Handwritten Signatures.- Online Signature Verification Based on Global Feature of Writing Forces.- Improving the Binding of Electronic Signatures to the Signer by Biometric Authentication.- A Comparative Study of Feature and Score Normalization for Speaker Verification.- Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Audio-Visual Speaker Recognition.- Biometric Fusion and Performance Evaluation.- Identity Verification Through Palm Vein and Crease Texture.- Multimodal Facial Gender and Ethnicity Identification.- Continuous Verification Using Multimodal Biometrics.- Fusion of Face and Iris Features for Multimodal Biometrics.- The Role of Statistical Models in Biometric Authentication.- Technology Evaluations on the TH-FACE Recognition System.- Study on Synthetic Face Database for Performance Evaluation.- Gait and Keystroke.- Gait Recognition Based on Fusion of Multi-view Gait Sequences.- A New Representation for Human Gait Recognition: Motion Silhouettes Image (MSI).- Reconstruction of 3D Human Body Pose for Gait Recognition.- Artificial Rhythms and Cues for Keystroke Dynamics Based Authentication.- Retraining a Novelty Detector with Impostor Patterns for Keystroke Dynamics-Based Authentication.- Biometric Access Control Through Numerical Keyboards Based on Keystroke Dynamics.- Keystroke Biometric System Using Wavelets.- GA SVM Wrapper Ensemble for Keystroke Dynamics Authentication.- Enhancing Login Security Through the Use of Keystroke Input Dynamics.- Others.- A Study of Identical Twins’ Palmprints for Personal Authentication.- A Novel Hybrid Crypto-Biometric Authentication Scheme for ATM Based Banking Applications.- An Uncorrelated Fisherface Approach for Face and Palmprint Recognition.- Fast and Accurate Segmentation of Dental X-Ray Records.- Acoustic Ear Recognition.- Classification of Bluffing Behavior and Affective Attitude from Prefrontal Surface Encephalogram During On-Line Game.- A Novel Strategy for Designing Efficient Multiple Classifier.- Hand Geometry Based Recognition with a MLP Classifier.- A False Rejection Oriented Threat Model for the Design of Biometric Authentication Systems.- A Bimodal Palmprint Verification System.- Feature-Level Fusion of Hand Biometrics for Personal Verification Based on Kernel PCA.- Human Identification System Based on PCA Using Geometric Features of Teeth.- An Improved Super-Resolution with Manifold Learning and Histogram Matching.- Invertible Watermarking Algorithm with Detecting Locations of Malicious Manipulation for Biometric Image Authentication.- The Identification and Recognition Based on Point for Blood Vessel of Ocular Fundus.- A Method for Footprint Range Image Segmentation and Description.- Human Ear Recognition from Face Profile Images.