Despite growing interest in the technologies of biometrics such as fingerprinting, facial recognition and iris scanning, there are too few in-depth case studies exploring their deployment on a national scale. This paper offers a qualitative analysis of biometric technologies by examining the National Identity Scheme – a recently abandoned United Kingdom government-sponsored program for a nation...

Biometrics is a growing technology, which has been widely used in forensics, secured access and prison security. A biometric system is fundamentally a pattern recognition system that recognizes a person by determining the authentication by using his different biological features i.e. Fingerprint, retina-scan, iris scan, hand geometry, and face recognition are leading physiological biometrics an...

In this paper, we propose multitask multivairate common sparse representations for robust multimodal biometrics recognition which can be viewed as an extension of previous work on joint sparse representation-based multimodal biometrics recognition. The proposed algorithm can better utilize the discriminative information among different modalities simultaneously by enforcing the common sparse re...

Unimodal biometric recognition is not able to meet the performance requirements in most cases with its application becomes more and more broadly. Recognition based on multimodal biometrics represents an emerging trend recently. In the paper, we propose multimodal biometrics recognition based on score level fusion of fingerprint and finger vein, since fingerprint recognition and finger vein reco...