Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics

Table of Contents

 

 

 

Preface

 

Chapter 1. Introduction to Biometrics

1.1. Background: from anthropometry to biometrics

1.2. Biometrics today

1.3. Different modes of use of a biometric system and associated uses

1.4. Biometrics as a pattern recognition problem

1.5. Evaluation of different modalities

1.6. Quality

1.7. Multimodality

1.8. Biometrics and preservation of privacy

1.9. Conclusion

1.10. Bibliography

 

Chapter 2. Introduction to 2D Face Recognition

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Global face recognition techniques

2.3. Local face recognition techniques

2.4. Hybrid face recognition techniques

2.5. Some guidances

2.6. Some databases

2.7. Conclusion

2.8. Bibliography

 

Chapter 3. Facial Soft Biometrics for Person Recognition

3.1. Introduction to soft biometrics

3.2. Soft biometric systems for human identification

3.3. Overall error probability of a soft biometrics system

3.4. Conclusions and future directions

3.5. Bibliography

 

Chapter 4. Modeling, Reconstruction and Trackingfor Face Recognition

4.1. Background

4.2. Types of available information

4.3. Geometric approaches for the reconstruction

4.4. Model-based approaches for reconstruction

4.5. Hybrid approaches

4.6. Integration of the time aspect

4.7. Conclusion

4.8. Bibliography

 

Chapter 5. 3D Face Recognition

5.1. Introduction

5.2. 3D face databases

5.3. 3D acquisition

5.4. Preprocessing and normalization

5.5. 3D face recognition

5.6. Asymmetric face recognition

5.7. Conclusion

5.8. Bibliography

 

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