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Iris Biometrics

From Segmentation to Template Security

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Overview

  • Provides detailed analysis and discussions regarding issues and challenges which are rarely investigated within common literature, e.g. watermarking, image segmentation, compression and template protection
  • Presents current state-of-the-art approaches accompanied by comprehensive experimental evaluations
  • Includes supplemental software

Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS, volume 59)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Fundamentals in Iris Recognition

  2. Iris Image Processing and Biometric Comparators

  3. Privacy and Security in Iris Biometrics

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About this book

Iris Biometrics: From Segmentation to Template Security provides critical analysis, challenges and solutions on recent iris biometric research topics, including image segmentation, image compression, watermarking, advanced comparators, template protection and more. Open source software is also provided on a dedicated website which includes feature extraction, segmentation and matching schemes applied in this book to foster scientific exchange. Current state-of-the-art approaches accompanied by comprehensive experimental evaluations are presented as well. This book has been designed as a secondary text book or reference for researchers and advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering. Professionals working in this related field will also find this book useful as a reference.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“The current text, written at the University of Salzburg, assembles the results of an impressive body of research on iris recognition and biometrics, and is a major contribution to the field. … This text is sure to find a place on the desk of any researcher currently involved in iris recognition systems and associated biometrics.” (Minette Carl and R. Goldberg, Computing Reviews, August, 2013)

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Christian Rathgeb, Peter Wild

  • Inst. Computerwissenschaften, und Systemanalyse, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

    Andreas Uhl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Iris Biometrics

  • Book Subtitle: From Segmentation to Template Security

  • Authors: Christian Rathgeb, Andreas Uhl, Peter Wild

  • Series Title: Advances in Information Security

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5571-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5570-7Published: 08 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8619-1Published: 13 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5571-4Published: 08 November 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2633

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-2193

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 358

  • Topics: Biometrics, Pattern Recognition, Systems and Data Security

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