Biometric Systems: Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation

By James Wayman

Book Overview

Biometric Systems - Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation is a reference book for anyone involved in the design, management or implementation of biometric systems, and provides all the information needed to a build reliable system. It focuses on the four most widely used types of biometric technology - speech, fingerprint, iris and face recognition. It is the only book to cover the implementation of test procedures, thus making it an invaluable resource for anyone working in this field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852335963
• ISBN13: 9781852335960
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

face recognition needs more work

This is primarily an algorithms book, though perhaps the authors might resist such a characterisation. By this I mean that there are detailed descriptions of how various biometric systems do pattern matching. These vary from iris recognition systems to fingerprint matching systems and face recognition methods. The iris and fingerprint methods seem well established. Certainly, fingerprint matching is now a mature discipline. Where automated methods not only speed up searching of millions of fingerprints, but they also remove a lot of subjectivity. Face recognition is still a work in progress. Much harder. The idea of a "face space" arises - the set of all possible images of faces. Where these might be three dimensional. Though much effort is expended on two dimensional images, since these are what the vast majority of cameras produce. Considerable space is devoted to testing the above methods. Important in order to assess efficacy of new methods and to measure any progress in these fields.

Good overview,coverage and easy to understand

This book provides a good coverage of the technology, methods, and the core ideas of four leading biometric systems. The various real-world applications for these systems, the performance, current state of art are also described in details. It also discusses the benchmarks for comparing the performance and for system improvements. This book is easy to understand for readers who are completely new to world of biometrics. It provides user an overview of each system, their practical drawbacks, providing the reader an idea of what technology to choose for a particular type of application and enough information where he can relatively make a choice of which technology to invest in taking into consideration the time of deployment, cost etc.

A Clear Winner from Biometrics Pioneers !

Biometric Authentication has become a first-class, full-fledged, field of study with its own diverse composite of foundational technologies at its core. As is the case with any "highly-interdisciplinary" field, the challenge for textbook authors is to present a body of work which provides an adequate scope of material while at the same time providing adequate detail for that body of knowledge.. Wayman and company with this current work have met that challenge admirably. This book provides a wealth of pertinent information, results, and lessons learned along the way in the research, development and deployment of biometric systems worldwide. The contributors include researchers and practitioners who have been involved in the field since the very beginning. All of the popular person recognition modalities are examined including fingerprint, face, speaker, and iris, as well as large scale system design and integration issues. Also covered are evaluation, testing, and the all important societal privacy issues from both the US and European perspective. The text comprehensively and coherently addresses the material at a surprisingly accessible level; the majority of the material can be readily understood without an advanced background in higher mathematics or computer science. I highly recommend this book for beginning and intermediate level biometrics professionals requiring comprehensive knowledge of this relatively new field. It also provides a wonderful jumping-off point for further study and exploration.