Biometric Technology for Human Identification IV (DS36)

 

 

Positive and reliable automatic identification of humans is a very important topic in a number of law enforcement (e.g., criminal investigation), government (e.g., border control), and commercial (e.g., logical and physical access control) applications. Surrogate representations of identity such as passwords and physical tokens fail to provide satisfactory level of security in the current electronic era. Biometrics-based authentication techniques utilize physical and behavioral characteristics (e.g., fingerprint, iris, voice, gait, and face) to either verify a claimed identity (biometric verification) or establish the identity of an individual (biometric identification). With increased emphasis on security, there is a growing and urgent need to automatically identify humans both locally and remotely on a routine basis. The purpose of this conference is to provide a scientific forum for researchers, engineers, system architects, and designers to report recent advances in this important area of human identification using biometrics.