BIOM 426

Introduction to Biometrics Systems

Instructor: Natalia A. Schmid 

Fall 2009

Course Syllabus

Announcements:  

·         Quiz #3 is scheduled on December 3.

·         Reports in Iris Recognition are due on November 27, 2009. Can be submitted over e-mail.

·         Iris Project presentations are rescheduled on November 17 and 19, 2009.

·         Data for Iris Project are posted.

Lecture Notes:

1.      Introduction to Biometrics [lecture]

2.      Introduction to Image Processing [examples]

3.      Hand Geometry [lecture]

4.      Performance Evaluation [lecture1] [lecture2] [example]

5.      Identification Systems: Performance Evaluation [lecture]

6.      Iris Recognition: Classical Approach [lecture]

7.      Data for Iris Project [data]

8.      Face Recognition: Overview [lecture]

9.      EigenIris Decomposition [example]

10.  Fingerprint Identification: Overview [lecture]

11.  Fingerprints: Enhancement and Classification [lecture]

12.  Fingerprint: Classification [notes]

13.  Fingerprint: Matching [notes]

14.  Data for Fingerprint Project [data]

Recommended Books and Papers: 

        General:

1.      A. K. Jain, R. Bolle, and Sh. Pankanti Edts., BIOMETRICS: Personal Identification in Networked Society, Kluwer Acad. Publishers, Boston, 1999 (republished in 2005). 

2.      IEEE Computer Magazine, February 2000.

3.      Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 85, no. 9, 1997.

4.      R. M. Bolle, et al., Guide to Biometrics, Springer, New York, 2004, pp. 45-47.

5.      J. R. Vacca, Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems, 2007.

6.      A. K. Jain, P. Flynn, and A. A. Ross, Hand book of biometrics, Springer 2007.

7.      N. K. Ratha, V. Govindaraju, Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Springer 2007.

8.      J. D. Woodward Jr., N. M. Orlans, and P. T. Higgins, Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age, 2002.

9.      J. Wayman, A. Jain, D. Maltoni, and D. Maio, Biometric Systems: Technology, Design, and Performance Evaluation, Springer 2004.

10.  B. Bolle, J. Connell, S. Pankanti, and N. Ratha, Guide to Biometrics, Springer 2003.

1.      T. Dunstone and N. Yager, Biometric Systems and Data Analysis: Design, Evaluation, and Data Mining, Springer 2008.

2.      M. Tistarelli, S. Z. Li, and R. Chellappa, Handbook of Remote Biometrics for Surveillance and Security, Springer 2009.

3.      A. K. Jain and S. Z. Li, Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer 2009.

4.      C. A. Shoniregun and S. Crosier, Securing Biometrics Applications, Springer 2007.

Handgeometry: 

5.      Hand: give me five by D. Sidlauskas in “Vital signs of identity,” IEEE Spectrum, February 1994, pp. 24 – 25.

6.      D. P. Sidlauskas, “3D hand profile identification apparatus,” US Patent No. 4736203, 1988.

7.      K. Jain, A. Ross, and S. Pankanti, “A Prototype Hand Geometry-based Verification System,” in Proc. of the 2nd Int’l Conf. on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Washington DC, pp. 166-171, March 22-24, 1999.

8.      L. N. Wong and P. Shi, “Peg-Free Hand Geometry Recognition Using Hierarchical Geometry and Shape Matching,” IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Nara, Japan, December 2002, pp. 282-284. 

9.      http://www.recogsys.com

10.  http://www.biomet.ch (two-finger verification)

11.  D. P. Sidlauskas and S. Tamer, “Hand Geometry Recognition,” (Ch. 5) in Handbook of Biometrics, A. K. Jain, P. Flynn, and A. A. Ross (Edts.), 2008.

Performance Evaluation:

12.  A. J. Mansfield, J.L. Wyman, “Best Practices in Testing and Reporting Performance of Biometric Devices,” Version 2.1, NPL Report CMSC 14/02, August 2002 [BestPractice02.pdf] 

13.  P.J. Phillips, A. Martin, C.L. Wilson, and M. Przybocki, “An Introduction to Evaluating Biometric Systems,” IEEE Computer Magazine, February 2000, pp. 56 – 63.

14.  N.A. Schmid and J.A O’Sullivan, “Performance Prediction Methodology for Biometric Systems Using a Large-Deviations Approach,” IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Nov. 2004.

Iris:

15.  J. Daugman’s web site [URL]

16.  J. Daugman, “High Confidence Visual Recognition of Persons by a Test of Statistical Independence,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1148 – 1161, 1993.

17.  J. Daugman, United States Patent No. 5,291,560 (issued on March 1994).  Biometric Personal Identification System Based on Iris Analysis, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.

18.  R. P. Wildes, “Iris Recognition: An Emerging Biometric Technology,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 85, no. 9, Sept. 1997, pp. 1348 – 1363.

Face: 

19.  J. Zhang, Y. Yan, and M. Lades, “Face Recognition: Eigenface, Elastic Matching, and Neural Nets,” Proceeding of the IEEE, vol. 85, no. 9, pp. 1423 – 1435, 1997.

20.  W. Zhao and P. J. Phillips, “Face Recognition: A Literature Survey,” NIST Techn. Report, 2000.

21.  P. N. Belhumeur, J. P. Hespanha, and D. J. Kriegman, “Eigenfaces vs. Fisherfaces: Recognition Using Class Specific Linear Projection,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 711 – 720, 1997.

22.  M Kirby and L. Sirovich, “Application of Karhunen-Loeve Procedure for the Characterization of Human Face,” vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 103 – 108, 1990.

23.  H. Wechsler, Reliable Face Recognition Methods: System Design, Implementation and Evaluation, Springer 2006.

Fingerprint: 

24.  D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A. K. Jain, and S. Prabhakar, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition, Springer, New York, 2003.

25.  G. T. Candela and R. Chellappa. “Comparative Performance of Classification Methods for Fingerprints,” Technical Report NISTIR 5163 [2,412K], April 1993.

26.  C. L. Wilson, G. T. Candela, C. I. Watson. Neural Network Fingerprint Classification,” [3,760K] in Journal for Artificial Neural Networks, 1(2), 203-228, 1994.

Miltimodal Biometrics:

27.  R. Brunelli and D. Falavigna, “Person Identification Using Multiple Cues,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 955 – 966, Oct. 1995.

28.  A. Ross, A.K. Jain, and J.-Zh. Qian, “Information Fusion in Biometrics,” Proc. of  the 3rd Intern. Conf. on Audio- and Video-Based Person Authentication, pp. 354 – 359, Sweden, June 6 – 8, 2001.

29.  M. Indovina, U. Uludag, R. Snelick, A. Mink, and A Jain, “Multimodal Biometric Authentication Methods: A COTS Approach,” Biometrics Workshop in Santa-Barbara, 2003.

30.  A. A. Ross, K. Nandakumar, and A. K. Jain, Handbook of Multibiometrics, Springer 2006.

Retina:

31.  R. B. Hill, United States Patent No. 4,393,366 (issued on July 12, 1983). Rotating Beam Ocular Identification Apparatus and Method, Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983. 

Infrared Identification:  

32.  F. J. Prokoski, United States Patent No. 6,496,594 B1 (issued on December 17, 2002). Method and Apparatus for Aligning and Comparing Images of the Face and Body from Different Imagers,  Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

33.  D. A. Sokolinsky, L. B. Wolff, J. D. Neuheisel, and Ch. K. Eveland, “Illumination Invariant Face Recognition Using Thermal Infrared Imagery,” Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. CVPR 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Conference on, vol. 1, pp. 527 – 534, 2001.

34.  R. Cuttler, “Face Recognition Using Infrared Images and Eigenfaces.”

 Databases:

Hand Geometry:

·         University of Bologna

Face:

·         Yale database

·         MIT database

Iris Images:

·         Data for Iris Project

Useful Links:    

·         Matlab tutorial  

·         Dynamic Programming [URL]

·         Biometric References [link]

 

This file is maintained by Natalia A. Schmid.



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