Iris Biometrics
From Segmentation to Template Security
Authors: Rathgeb, Christian, Uhl, Andreas, Wild, Peter
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
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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)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Human Iris as a Biometric Identifier
Pages 3-6
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Iris Biometric Processing
Pages 7-19
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State-of-the-Art in Iris Biometrics
Pages 21-36
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Eye Detection
Pages 39-48
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Iris Segmentation Methodologies
Pages 49-73
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Iris Biometrics
- Book Subtitle
- From Segmentation to Template Security
- Authors
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- Christian Rathgeb
- Andreas Uhl
- Peter Wild
- Series Title
- Advances in Information Security
- Series Volume
- 59
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4614-5571-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-5571-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4614-5570-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4899-8619-1
- Series ISSN
- 1568-2633
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 358
- Topics