Biometrics: The Keys to a keyless tomorrow. Issues and solutions to personal identification.

Book Description (from descriptive material): Biometric identity verification (BIV) offers a radical alternative to passports, PIN numbers, ID cards and driving licences. It uses physiological or behavioural characteristics such as fingerprints, hand geometry, and retinas to check a person's identity. It is therefore much less open to fraudulent use, which makes it ideal for use in voting systems, financial transactions, benefit payment administration, border control, and prison access. This is the first book to provide business readers with an easy-to-read, non-technical introduction to BIV systems. It explains the background and then tells the reader how to get their system up and running quickly. It will be an invaluable read for practitioners, managers and IT personnel - in fact for anyone considering, or involved in, implementing a BIV system. Julian Ashbourn was one of the pioneers in integrating biometric technology and has provided input into many prototype BIV systems around the world. -- This book provides an in-depth grounding in biometrics, specifically those applied to individual identity verification. Serves as a reference for the academic researcher or student of biometrics, and even has something to offer the nontechnical reader. The CD-ROM contains interesting utilities for Microsoft Windows environments.

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Automated Biometrics : Technologies and Systems (The Kluwer International Series on Asian Studies in Computer and Information Science)
by David D. Zhang

Introduces the relative biometric technologies and explores how to design the corresponding systems with in-depth discussion. Engineering applications of biometrics to personal authentication and Chinese medicine are covered. DLC: Pattern recognition systems. -- description from pomlit: Biometrics-based authentication and identification are emerging as the most reliable method to authenticate and identify individuals. Biometrics requires that the person to be identified be physically present at the point-of-identification and relies on `something which you are or you do' to provide better security, increased efficiency, and improved accuracy. Automated biometrics deals with physiological or behavioral characteristics such as fingerprints, signature, palmprint, iris, hand, voice and face that can be used to authenticate a person's identity or establish an identity from a database. With rapid progress in electronic and Internet commerce, there is also a growing need to authenticate the identity of a person for secure transaction processing. Designing an automated biometrics system to handle large population identification, accuracy and reliability of authentication are challenging tasks. Currently, there are over ten different biometrics systems that are either widely used or under development. Some automated biometrics, such as fingerprint identification and speaker verification, have received considerable attention over the past 25 years, and some issues like face recognition and iris-based authentication have been studied extensively resulting in successful development of biometrics systems in commercial applications. However, very few books are exclusively devoted to such issues of automated biometrics. Automated Biometrics: Technologies and Systems systematically introduces the technologies and systems, and explores how to design the corresponding systems with in-depth discussion. The issues addressed in this book are highly relevant to many fundamental concerns of both researchers and practitioners of automated biometrics in computer and system security.

"It won't be long before computer users need only utter a voice command or offer up a set of fingerprints to boot up their systems" John G. Spooner, ZDNet News

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