Advanced Studies in Biometrics: Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero, Italy, June 2-6, 2003. Revised Selected Lectures and Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3161)

Automatic person authentication, the identification and verification of an individual as such, has increasingly been acknowledged as a significant aspect of various security applications. Various recognition and identification systems have been based on biometrics utilizing biometric features such as fingerprint, face, retina scans, iris patterns, hand geometry, DNA traces, gait, and others. This book originates from an international summer school on biometrics, held in Alghero, Italy, in June 2003. The seven revised tutorial lectures by leading researchers introduce the reader to biometrics-based person authentication, fingerprint recognition, gait recognition, various aspects of face recognition and face detection, topologies for biometric recognition, and hand detection. Also included are the four best selected student papers, all dealing with face recognition. Combining Biometric Evidence For Person Authentication / J. Bigun [and Others] -- Biometric Gait Recognition / Jeffrey E. Boyd And James J. Little -- A Tutorial On Fingerprint Recognition / Davide Maltoni -- Spiral Topologies For Biometric Recognition / Massimo Tistarelli, Enrico Grosso, Andrea Lagorio -- Statistical Learning Approaches With Application To Face Detection / Emanuele Franceschi, Francesca Odone, Alessandro Verri -- Hand Detection By Direct Convexity Estimation / Dganit Maimon And Yehezkel Yeshurun -- Template-based Hand Detection And Tracking / R. Cipolla [and Others] -- 3d Face Recognition Using Stereoscopic Vision / U. Castellani [and Others] -- Selection Of Location, Frequency, And Orientation Parameters Of 2d Gabor Wavelets For Face Recognition / Berk Gokberk [and Others] -- A Face Recognition System Based On Local Feature Characterization / Paola Campadelli And Raffaella Lanzarotti -- Influence Of Location Over Several Classifiers In 2d And 3d Face Verification / Susana Mata [and Others]. Massimo Tistarelli, Josef Bigun, Enrico Grosso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Issued Online. Front Matter....Pages - Combining Biometric Evidence for Person Authentication....Pages 1-18 Biometric Gait Recognition....Pages 19-42 A Tutorial on Fingerprint Recognition....Pages 43-68 Spiral Topologies for Biometric Recognition....Pages 69-90 Statistical Learning Approaches with Application to Face Detection....Pages 91-104 Hand Detection by Direct Convexity Estimation....Pages 105-113 Template-Based Hand Detection and Tracking....Pages 114-125 3D Face Recognition Using Stereoscopic Vision....Pages 126-137 Selection of Location, Frequency, and Orientation Parameters of 2D Gabor Wavelets for Face Recognition....Pages 138-146 A Face Recognition System Based on Local Feature Characterization....Pages 147-152 Influence of Location over Several Classifiers in 2D and 3D Face Verification....Pages 153-158 Back Matter....Pages - Face recognition is an important element of person authentication in humans.