Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments

Foreword

Kevin Bowyer

The problem of recognizing people using biometric techniques might be considered “solved” for certain instances of carefully controlled and constrained environments. For a controlled and not-too-large population size, and with constrained acquisition of biometric samples, various biometric techniques may be able to achieve acceptable accuracy for a specified level of security. However, the story of biometric research is that success in controlled and constrained scenarios only increases the desire for similar levels of success in more general and less-constrained ones. And so there is continual interest in pushing the limits of human recognition in more challenging conditions. Thus this book, Human Recognition in Outdoor ...