BIOM 426

Introduction to Biometrics Systems

Instructor: Natalia A. Schmid 

Fall 2005

Course Syllabus

Announcements:  

w        The presentations on Iris segmentation and recognition are scheduled on December 6 and 8, 2005. 

Projects:  

w        Fingerprint Enhancement, Classification, and Matching project description, data, and readme file. 

Lecture Notes: 

w        Introduction (lecture notes from August 25)

w        Fingerprint Identification (lecture notes from August 30)

w        Elements of Image Processing (lecture notes from September 6)

w        Hand Geometry (lecture notes from September 22)

w        Performance Evaluation (lecture notes from October 4)

w        Face Recognition (lecture notes from October 11)

w        Iris Recognition  

w        IRID (lecture notes from November 1)

w        Multimodal Biometrics (lecture notes from November 3) 

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. 

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.

Fingerprint: 

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

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

7.      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.

Handgeometry: 

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

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

10.  A. K. Jain, A. Ross, and Sh. Pankanti, “A Prototype Hand Geometry-based Verification System,” Proc. of 2nd Int’l Conf. on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Washington D.C., pp. 166-171, March 22-24, 1999 [pdf-copy] 

11.  A. 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. 281-284 [pdf-copy]

12.  http://www.recogsys.com

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

Performance Evaluation:

14.  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] 

15.  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.

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

Face: 

17.  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.

18.  W. Zhao and P. J. Phillips, “Face Recognition: A Literature Survey,” NIST Techn. Report, 2000 [review00face.pdf].

19.  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.   

20.  M Kirby and L. Sirovich, “Application of Karhunen-Loeve Procedure for the Characterization of Human Face,” vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 103 – 108, 1990 [kirby90.pdf]. 

Iris:

21.  J. Daugman’s web site [URL]

22.  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.

23.  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. 

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

Miltimodal Biometrics:

25.  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.

26.   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.

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

Retina:

28.  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:  

29.  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.

30.  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.

31.  R. Cuttler, “Face Recognition Using Infrared Images and Eigenfaces,” [URL]


 Databases:

        Fingerprint:

·         University of Bologna [database]  

·         Synthetic FINgerprint GEnerator [Sfinger]

Hand Geometry:

·         University of Bologna [database]  

Face:

·         Yale database

·         MIT database

Iris Images:

·         Collage

·         Sample iris

·         Sample iris2 

·         Localization 

Useful Links:    

·         Matlab tutorial  

·         Dynamic Programming [URL]

·         Biometric References [link]

 

 



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