| Handbook of Remote Biometrics: For Surveillance and Security 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Tistarelli, Massimo (Editor), Li, Stan Z. (Editor), Chellappa, Rama (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1848823843 ISBN-13: 9781848823846 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: This book covers several aspects of biometrics from the perspective of recognizing individuals at a distance. While this trend deserves growing attention, a strong impact is expected in many applications of biometrics, including border control, surveillance in critical infrastructures and ambient intelligence. This book presents a wide and in-depth view of the most advanced biometric technologies for recognition at a distance. A multi-view approach is presented to the reader with each chapter being designed to cover a different biometric subject written by authors from different research institutions, with the objective of covering the subject from different perspectives. Current existing and under preparation international standards in biometrics are also presented. This comprehensive innovative state of the art volume is designed to form and inform professionals, young researchers and graduate students in the most advanced biometric technologies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Security - General - Computers | User Interfaces - Computers | Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition |
| Dewey: 005.8 |
| LCCN: 2009926948 |
| Series: Advances in Pattern Recognition |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.75 lbs) 381 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The development of technologies for the identi?cation of individuals has driven the interest and curiosity of many people. Spearheaded and inspired by the Bertillon coding system for the classi?cation of humans based on physical measurements, scientists and engineers have been trying to invent new devices and classi?cation systems to capture the human identity from its body measurements. One of the main limitations of the precursors of today's biometrics, which is still present in the vast majority of the existing biometric systems, has been the need to keep the device in close contact with the subject to capture the biometric measurements. This clearly limits the applicability and convenience of biometric systems. This book presents an important step in addressing this limitation by describing a number of methodologies to capture meaningful biometric information from a distance. Most materials covered in this book have been presented at the International Summer School on Biometrics which is held every year in Alghero, Italy and which has become a ?agship activity of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (IAPR TC4). The last four chapters of the book are derived from some of the best p- sentations by the participating students of the school. The educational value of this book is also highlighted by the number of proposed exercises and questions which will help the reader to better understand the proposed topics. |