Soft-Biometric in Recognition of New Born?

Most of the biometric research being done is for adults and the identification accuracy of new born are least reported in the literatures. In this paper we propose a novel biometric identification method for new born babies using their face and soft biometrics. Accurate patient identification (ID) is essential for patient safety, especially with our smallest and most vulnerable podiatric patients. The main contribution of the research are (a) the preparation of face and soft biometric database of new born. (b)Testing the algorithm for identification of 221 new born. The combined use of all the four soft biometric traits results in an improvement of approximately 6% over the primary biometric system.