Guide to Biometrics

Ruud Bolle, John Connell, Nalini Ratha, Sharath Pankanti, Andrew W. Senior - Collection Springer Professional Computing

364 pages, parution le 10/02/2004

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There is much interest in the use of biometrics for verification, identification, and "screening" applications, collectively called biometric authentication. This interest has been heightened because of the threat of terrorism. Biometric authentication systems offer advantages over systems based on knowledge or possession such as unsupervised (legacy) authentication systems based on password/PIN and supervised (legacy) authentication systems based on driver's licences and passports. The most important advantage is increased security: when a person is authenticated based on a biometric, the probability that this person is the originally enrolled person can be statistically estimated or computed in some other way. When a person is authenticated based on a password or even based on human observation, no such probabilities can be determined. Of course, the mere capability to compute this probability is not sufficient, what is needed is that the probability of correct authentication is high and the error probabilities are low. Achieving this probabilistic linking by introducing biometrics in authentication systems brings along many design choices and may introduce additional security loopholes. Biometrics examines the many aspects of biometric applications that are an issue even before a particular biometrics has been selected. In addition, the book further studies many issues that are associated with the currently popular biometric identifiers, namely, finger, face, voice, iris, hand (geometry) and signature.

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Practitioners, professionals

L'auteur - John Connell

John Connell
In his day job, John Connell is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer with Financial Federal Bank in Chicago, a 100 percent Microsoft tools and operating system company. John and his team develop applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual InterDev® 6.0, Visual C++® 6.0, BackOffice®, MTS, MSMQ, Site Server—Commerce Edition, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, and Microsoft SQL Server™ 7.0. He has an M.B.A. from Loyola University and a Master's in Computer Science from DePaul University in Chicago. John also currently teaches evening and weekend graduate-level programming classes at DePaul University. He wrote Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft Press, 2001).

Sommaire

Foreword
Introduction
Authentication and biometrics
The common biometrics
Other biometrics
Basic system errors
Measuring system errors
Creating biometric databases
Selecting a biometric
Tuning and training
Integrating information
Thwarting attacks
APIs, standards, and databases
A biometric's individuality
System errors revisited
Comparing matchers
What's next
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Ruud Bolle, John Connell, Nalini Ratha, Sharath Pankanti, Andrew W. Senior
Collection	Springer Professional Computing
Parution	10/02/2004
Nb. de pages	364
Format	18 x 24
Couverture	Broché
Poids	840g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780387400891
ISBN13	978-0-387-40089-1