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Biometric-Based Physical and Cybersecurity Systems

  • Presents a comprehensive compilation of the latest advances in biometric security systems in both academia and industry from experts around the world
  • Addresses many critical and contemporary questions about biometrics, especially robustness, privacy, and security of personal biometrics samples
  • Covers traditional, emerging, and hybrid biometrics in addition to biometric platforms, accessories, and middleware

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction

    • Issa Traore, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Isaac Woungang
    Pages 1-10
  3. Advances in Legacy Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Advances in Fingerprint Technology

      • Rupa Patel, Soodamani Ramalingam
      Pages 13-36
    3. Recognition-Based on Eye Biometrics: Iris and Retina

      • Josef Hájek, Martin Drahanský
      Pages 37-102
    4. 3D Hand Geometry Recognition

      • Michal Dvořák, Martin Drahanský
      Pages 103-123
    5. Fundamentals and Advances in 3D Face Recognition

      • Soodamani Ramalingam, Aruna Shenoy, Nguyen Trong Viet
      Pages 125-162
  4. Emerging Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Advances in Key Stroke Dynamics-Based Security Schemes

      • Mohammad S. Obaidat, P. Venkata Krishna, V. Saritha, Shubham Agarwal
      Pages 165-187
    3. Behavioral Biometrics Based on Human-Computer Interaction Devices

      • Chi Lin, Mohammad S. Obaidat
      Pages 189-209
    4. Continuous Authentication Using Writing Style

      • Marcelo Luiz Brocardo, Issa Traore, Isaac Woungang
      Pages 211-232
    5. Facets and Promises of Gait Biometric Recognition

      • James Eric Mason, Issa Traore, Isaac Woungang
      Pages 233-253
    6. Online Signature-Based Biometric Recognition

      • Sudeep Tanwar, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Sudhanshu Tyagi, Neeraj Kumar
      Pages 255-285
    7. EEG-Based Biometrics

      • Florian Gondesen, Matthias Marx, Dieter Gollmann
      Pages 287-318
  5. Hybrid Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-319
    2. Multimodal Biometric Invariant Fusion Techniques

      • P. Viswanatham, P. Venkata Krishna, V. Saritha, Mohammad S. Obaidat
      Pages 321-336
    3. Biometrics Based on Healthcare Sensors

      • Mohammad S. Obaidat, Tanmoy Maitra, Debasis Giri
      Pages 337-354
    4. Biometric Authentication for Wearables

      • Harin Sellahewa, Nasiru Ibrahim, Sherali Zeadally
      Pages 355-386
    5. Cognitive Biometrics for User Authentication

      • Ahmed Awad, Yudong Liu
      Pages 387-399
    6. Finger Knuckle-Based Multi-Biometric Authentication Systems

      • Aditya Nigam, Phalguni Gupta
      Pages 401-433

About this book

This book presents the latest developments in biometrics technologies and reports on new approaches, methods, findings, and technologies developed or being developed by the research community and the industry. The book focuses on introducing fundamental principles and concepts of key enabling technologies for biometric systems applied for both physical and cyber security. The authors disseminate recent research and developing efforts in this area, investigate related trends and challenges, and present case studies and examples such as fingerprint, face, iris, retina, keystroke dynamics, and voice applications . The authors also investigate the advances and future outcomes in research and development in biometric security systems. The book is applicable to students, instructors, researchers, industry practitioners, and related government agencies staff. Each chapter is accompanied by a set of PowerPoint slides for use by instructors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ECE Department, Nazrabayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria – UVIC, Victoria, Canada

    Issa Traore

  • Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

    Isaac Woungang

About the editors

Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS) is an internationally well-known academic/researcher/scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently the Chair and Full Professor of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University, NY, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University, Dean of the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University and Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University for Research, Development and Information Technology. He has received extensive research funding and has published Thirty Eight (38) books and over Six Hundreds (600) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on three more books. Mohammad is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, the FTRA Journal of Convergence and the KSIP Journal of Information Processing. He is also an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. Between 1991-2006, he served as a Technical Editor and an Area Editor of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulations (SCS) International, TSCS. He also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of  Simulation.


Professor Issa Traore has a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Ecole de l'Air Salon de Provence, France, MSc in computer engineering from the ENSAE (Ecole Nationale Superieure de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace) - Toulouse, France and a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Institute Nationale Polytechnique - Toulouse, France. Dr. Traore is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Plurilock Security Solutions Inc. Plurilock delivers biometrics security and online fraud detection solutions to the global market. Dr. Traore is also a full Professor at the University of Victoria, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1999. He is the founder and Coordinator of the Information Security and Object Technology (ISOT) Laboratory, one of the leading institutions worldwide in research in behavioral biometrics technologies. He is the co-author of the first book on continuous authentication using biometric technologies and the first book on gait biometrics based on the ground reaction force (GRF). He has been granted two US patents on behavioral biometrics and emerging authentication technologies. He has published over 130 papers in archival journals and conferences on network security and biometrics technologies. He has supervised and graduated over in the last 15 years over 30 graduate students (Master’s and PhD), several of whom are working as faculty members in different Universities. Dr. Traore developed with his students a new behavioral biometrics technology based on mouse dynamics that can be used for both continuous authentication and static authentication. This pioneering work on mouse dynamics has opened up the door to a new field of research which has been growing steadily. In addition, Dr. Traore and his team established that cognitive factors such as short-term memory and visual-scan and detection, can be measured using a computer mouse and used to biometrically authenticate computer users. This gave rise to some new multimodal biometrics that combines three modalities, namely, mouse dynamics, short-term memory, and visual-scan and detection. Dr. Traore and his team made also significant contribution on free text analysis of keystroke dynamics biometric. A specific challenge related to continuous authentication is the need to ensure that the authentication process will be conducted passively without any active involvement of the user. Free text analysis is the only keystroke dynamics biometrics can be processed transparently and unobtrusively. 


Professor Isaac Woungang received his M.Sc. & Ph.D degrees, all in Mathematics, from the University of Aix Marseille II, France, and University of South, Toulon and Var, France, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. In 1999, he received a MSc degree from INRS-Materials and Telecommunications, University of Quebec in Montreal (Quebec), Canada. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a software engineer at Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada. Since 2002, he has been with Ryerson University, where he is now a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Distributed Applications and Broadband (DABNEL) Research Lab, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. His current research interests include radio resource management in next generation wireless networks and network security. Dr. Woungang has published 8 books and over 100 refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences. He served as Associate Editor of the Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and the International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley). He has Guest Edited several Special Issues with various reputed journals such as IET Information Security, Computer Communications (Elsevier), Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and Telecommunication Systems (Springer). He served as Chair of Computer Chapter, IEEE Toronto Section (2012 to 2016).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biometric-Based Physical and Cybersecurity Systems

  • Editors: Mohammad S. Obaidat, Issa Traore, Isaac Woungang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98734-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98733-0Published: 03 November 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07526-2Published: 28 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98734-7Published: 24 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 590

  • Number of Illustrations: 156 b/w illustrations, 151 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Biometrics, Security Science and Technology, Systems and Data Security

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