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What is Biometric Security

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Modern Cryptographic Solutions for Computer and Cyber Security
It refers to authentication techniques that rely on measurable individual’s physical characteristics that can be automatically checked. The system measures and analyzes human body characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes. Biometric security systems enhance security by linking a unique physical attribute of a user to the data that they are allowed to access.
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Application of Face Recognition Techniques in Video for Biometric Security: A Review of Basic Methods and Emerging Trends
Bijuphukan Bhagabati (Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, India) and Kandarpa Kumar Sarma (Gauhati University, India)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0105-3.ch019
Abstract
Biometric based attributes are the latest additions to the existing mechanisms used for security of information system and for access control. Among a host of others, face recognition is the most effective biometric system for identification and verification of persons. Face recognition from video has gained attention due to its popularity and ease of use with security systems based on vision and surveillance systems. The automated video based face recognition system provides a huge assortment of challenges as it is necessary to perform facial verification under different viewing conditions. Face recognition in video continues to attract lot of attention from researchers world over hence considerable advances are being recorded in this area. The aim of this chapter is to perform a review of the basic methods used for such techniques and finding the emerging trends of the research in this area. The primary focus is to summarize some well-known methods of face recognition in video sequences for application in biometric security and enumerate the emerging trends.
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