Biometrics is a challenging industry with a huge market potential. Technologies in the area are becoming mature, and various standards are about to be established. After a brief review of the status of international activities of biometrics standardisation, the activities of the Biometrics Working Group of the Security and Privacy Standards Technical Committee will be described. The article wil...

Lately, there is an increasing interest in multimodal biometric systems. Faculty of organizational sciences and Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia have recognized importance of biometrics, and started an international project named "Multimodal biometry in identity management". As a part of our project, we have developed a support platform for learning about multimodal biometrics. Platf...

The term “biometrics” is originated from the Greek word “bio” which means life and the word “metric” which means to measure. Biometrics encompasses a wide range of physiological and behavioral measurements [1]. It includes, but not limited to, DNA matching, face recognition, iris recognition, fingerprints, voice verification, hand geometry identification, hand written material, signatures and b...

Securing biometrics databases from being compromised is major challenge, it must be overcome in order to support widespread use of biometrics based authentication. In this paper we present a cryptographic technique for enhanced security of fingerprint information using RC4 enrichment algorithm approach. RC4 algorithm is already used for image encryption. This paper is about encryption and decry...

Biometric recognition based on human characteristics for personal identification has attracted great attention. The performance of biometric systems highly depends on the distinctive information in the biometrics. However, identical twins having the closest geneticsbased relationship are expected to have maximum similarity between their biometrics. Classifying identical twins is a challenging p...

User authentication is an important step to protect information and in this field face biometrics is advantageous. Face biometrics is natural, easy to use and less human-invasive. Unfortunately, recent work has revealed that face biometrics is vulnerable to spoofing attacks using low-tech cheap equipments. This article presents a countermeasure against such attacks based on the LBP −TOP operato...

Biometrics provide the possibility of unique and convenient authentication. As its application areas grow rapidly, the problems, such as identity fraud and cross matching, threaten the security of biometric systems. Moreover, privacy concerns are associated with biometrics. In this paper we focus on privacy enhancing techniques for biometric systems, which can protect biometric information and ...

This paper argues that biometrics have been re-framed in ways that decouple them from the discourse of balancing liberty and security with profound implications for the exercise of democratically legitimated power at a time when the transformative impact of ICTs on governance and society is obscured by the pace of change and accelerating mobile forensic applications and policy intent. It questi...

Research on keystroke dynamics biometrics has been increasing, especially in the last decade. The main motivation behind this effort is due to the fact that keystroke dynamics biometrics is economical and can be easily integrated into the existing computer security systems with minimal alteration and user intervention. Numerous studies have been conducted in terms of data acquisition devices, f...

Multimodal biometric authentication resolves no. of issues present in unimodal biometrics. There are number of ways for the fusion of different modalities in multimodal biometrics. Fusion could be either before matching the scores or after matching the score. The presented research paper deals with the comparative study of different techniques which performs fusion of information after matching...