edited by Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Kar-Ann Toh (Yonsei University, Korea), & Liyuan Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

Chapter 1: Text-Independent Speaker Recognition (421k)
Chapter 15: Multimodal Biometrics: An Overview And Some Recent Developments (191k)

Biometrics is the study of methods for uniquely recognizing humans based on one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. After decades of research activities, biometrics, as a recognized scientific discipline, has advanced considerably both in practical technology and theoretical discovery to meet the increasing need of biometric deployments. In this book, the editors provide both a concise and accessible introduction to the field as well as a detailed coverage on the unique research problems with their solutions in a wide spectrum of biometrics research ranging from voice, face, fingerprint, iris, handwriting, human behavior to multimodal biometrics. The contributions also present the pioneering efforts and state-of-the-art results, with special focus on practical issues concerning system development. This book is a valuable reference for established researchers and it also gives an excellent introduction for beginners to understand the challenges.

• Voice:
  • Text-Independent Speaker Recognition (Bin Ma and Haizhou Li)
  • Distinctive Features in the Representation of Speech and Acoustic Correlates (Jeung-Yoon Choi)
  • Speech Characterization and Feature Extraction for Speaker Recognition (Julien Epps and Eliathamby Ambikairajah)
• Face:
  • Fundamentals of Edge-Based Face Recognition (Yongsheng Gao)
  • Enhancing the Performance of Local Binary Patterns for Face Recognition by Spectral Regression (Bailing Zhang and Yanchun Zhang)
  • Fundamentals in Kernel Discriminant Analysis and Feature Selection for Face Recognition (Qingshan Liu, Hanqing Lu and Dimitris N Metaxas)
• Fingerprint:
  • Robust Reference Point Detection and Feature Extraction Algorithm in Fingerprint Verification System (Junbum Park, David K Han and Hanseok Ko)
  • Constrained Non-linear Phase Portrait Model of Fingerprint Orientation and Its Application to Fingerprint Classification (Jun Li and Wei-Yun Yau)
• Gait:
  • Human Identification by Fusion of Multiple Gait Representations (Euntai Kim, Sungjun Hong and Heesung Lee)
• Hand Geometry:
  • Personal Verification from the Geometry of Human Hands (Vivek Kanhangad and Ajay Kumar)
• Handwriting:
  • Writer Identification with Hybrid Edge Directional Features and Nonlinear Dimension Reduction (Bailing Zhang and Yanchun Zhang)
• Human Behavior Analysis:
  • Human Group Activities: Database and Algorithms (Bingbing Ni, Shuicheng Yan and Ashraf Kassim)
  • Swimmer Behavior Analysis and Early Drowning Detection at Pool (How-Lung Eng)
  • Human Metric Constrained Human Detection (Liyuan Li)
• Multibiometrics:
  • Multimodal Biometrics: An Overview and Some Recent Developments (Kar-Ann Toh)
  • User-specific Score Normalization and Fusion for Biometric Person Recognition (Norman Poh)
  • Multibiometric Authentication (Michael Wagner)
• Security and Others:
  • Cancelable Biometrics: Multiple Random Projections and Its Extensions (Andrew Beng Jin Teoh)
  • Biometric Authentication for Mobile Computing Applications (Fengling Han, Jiankun Hu and Ramamohanarao Kotagiri)
  • Discriminative Framework of Neural Activation Analysis with fMRI (Yang Wang and Jagath C Rajapakse)