Over the past two decades, biometric recognition has exploded into a plethora of different applications around globe. This proliferation can be attributed to high levels authentication accuracy and user convenience that systems afford end-users. However, in-spite success systems, there are number outstanding problems concerns pertaining various sub-modules create an element mistrust in their us...

Threats to information security are proliferating rapidly, placing demanding requirements on protecting tangible and intangible business and individual assets. Biometrics can improve security by replacing or complementing traditional security technologies. This tutorial discusses the strengths and weaknesses of biometrics and traditional security approaches, current and future applications of b...

Biometrics have a long-held hope of replacing passwords by establishing a non-repudiated identity and providing authentication with convenience. Convenience drives consumers toward biometrics-based access management solutions. Unlike passwords, biometrics cannot be script-injected; however, biometric data is considered highly sensitive due to its personal nature and unique association with user...

This article is an overview of a current multimodal biometrics research based on fingerprint and palm-print. It explains the pervious study for each modal separately and its fusion technique with another biometric modal. The basic biometric system consists of four stages: firstly, the sensor which is used for enrolment & recognition the biometrics data. Secondly, the pre-processing stage which ...

Biometric technologies are used to analyse human characteristics for security purposes. The most common physical biometrics patterns analyzed for security purposes are the fingerprint, hand, eye, face and voice. The advantages of using biometrics to verify a person’s identity over using passwords or token have been broadly presented in many research papers. However recent research has revealed ...

Biometrics identification methods proved to be very efficient, more natural and easy for users than traditional methods of human identification. In fact, only biometrics methods truly identify humans, not keys and cards they posses or passwords they should remember. The future of biometrics leads to passive physiological methods based on images of such parts of human body as face and ear. The a...

Biometric recognition refers to an automatic recognition of individuals based on a feature vector(s) derived from their physiological and/or behavioral characteristic. In order to deal with security, Authentication plays an important role. Biometric recognition systems should provide a reliable personal recognition schemes to either confirm or determine the identity of an individual. Applicatio...

This work categorizes and reviews behavioral biometrics with the inclusion of future-oriented techniques. A general introduction to this field is given alongside the benefits of this non-intrusive approach. It presents the examination and analysis of the current research in the field and the different types of behavior-centric features. Accuracy rates for verifying users with different behavior...

In recent years there has been exponential growth in the use of biometrics for user authentication applications because biometrics-based authentication offers several advantages over knowledge and possession-based methods such as password/PIN-based systems. However, it is important that biometrics-based authentication systems be designed to withstand different sources of attacks on the system w...

Although biometrics can be an useful component for access control, the security they procure is often overestimated, as if they were a magic tool whose simple use will automatically prevent each and every type of attack. Biometrics are not secure unless they are embedded in a strong cryptographic protocol, whose design pays special attention to their specificities. In particular, smart card rev...