Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation [Hardcover]

James L. Wayman (Editor), Anil K. Jain (Editor), Davide Maltoni (Editor), Dario Maio (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 16, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1852335963 | ISBN-13: 978-1852335960 | Edition: 1st Edition.

Biometric Systems provides practitioners with an overview of the principles and methods needed to build reliable biometric systems. It covers three main topics: key biometric technologies, design and management issues, and the performance evaluation of biometric systems for personal verification/identification. The four most widely used technologies are focused on - speech, fingerprint, iris and face recognition. Key features include: in-depth coverage of the technical and practical obstacles which are often neglected by application developers and system integrators and which result in shortfalls between expected and actual performance; and protocols and benchmarks which will allow developers to compare performance and track system improvements.

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About the Author

Dr. James Wayman and Prof. Anil Jain are two of the leading experts in the field. Dr. James Wayman is the Director of the US National Biometric Test Center.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition (December 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852335963
• ISBN-13: 978-1852335960
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #543,630 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview,coverage and easy to understand, March 25, 2005

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Sayali - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation (Hardcover)

This book provides a good coverage of the technology,

methods, and the core ideas of four leading biometric

systems. The various real-world applications for these

systems, the performance, current state of art are also

described in details. It also discusses the benchmarks

for comparing the performance and for system

improvements.

This book is easy to understand for readers who are

completely new to world of biometrics. It provides

user an overview of each system, their practical

drawbacks, providing the reader an idea of what

technology to choose for a particular type of

application and enough information where he can

relatively make a choice of which technology to invest

in taking into consideration the time of deployment,

cost etc.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Clear Winner from Biometrics Pioneers !, January 16, 2005

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Daniel Gill "Researcher-Educator" (Northeast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation (Hardcover)

Biometric Authentication has become a first-class, full-fledged, field of study with its own diverse composite of foundational technologies at its core. As is the case with any "highly-interdisciplinary" field, the challenge for textbook authors is to present a body of work which provides an adequate scope of material while at the same time providing adequate detail for that body of knowledge.. Wayman and company with this current work have met that challenge admirably.

This book provides a wealth of pertinent information, results, and lessons learned along the way in the research, development and deployment of biometric systems worldwide. The contributors include researchers and practitioners who have been involved in the field since the very beginning. All of the popular person recognition modalities are examined including fingerprint, face, speaker, and iris, as well as large scale system design and integration issues. Also covered are evaluation, testing, and the all important societal privacy issues from both the US and European perspective. The text comprehensively and coherently addresses the material at a surprisingly accessible level; the majority of the material can be readily understood without an advanced background in higher mathematics or computer science.

I highly recommend this book for beginning and intermediate level biometrics professionals requiring comprehensive knowledge of this relatively new field. It also provides a wonderful jumping-off point for further study and exploration.

4.0 out of 5 stars face recognition needs more work, February 15, 2007

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This review is from: Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation (Hardcover)

This is primarily an algorithms book, though perhaps the authors might resist such a characterisation. By this I mean that there are detailed descriptions of how various biometric systems do pattern matching. These vary from iris recognition systems to fingerprint matching systems and face recognition methods.

The iris and fingerprint methods seem well established. Certainly, fingerprint matching is now a mature discipline. Where automated methods not only speed up searching of millions of fingerprints, but they also remove a lot of subjectivity.

Face recognition is still a work in progress. Much harder. The idea of a "face space" arises - the set of all possible images of faces. Where these might be three dimensional. Though much effort is expended on two dimensional images, since these are what the vast majority of cameras produce.

Considerable space is devoted to testing the above methods. Important in order to assess efficacy of new methods and to measure any progress in these fields.