Unimodal and Multimodal Biometric Data Indexing

Preface

Biometric-based person identification continues to gain in importance as institutions of our society come to rely on biometrics to assist with many everyday functions in addition to using biometrics in law enforcement, military and other commercial pursuits. As the uses for biometrics expand, we need to be able to process ever larger amounts of biometric data in the order of millions of data points in order to provide reliable responses to queries. Several large scale applications use multiple biometric traits, such as combination of iris and fingerprint, fingerprint and face, fingerprint and hand geometry for authentication purpose. Consequently, many of the traditional approaches for authentication where the identity of a query template ...