Fingerprints are the oldest and most widely used form of biometric identification. Everyone is
known to have unique, immutable fingerprints. As most Automatic Fingerprint Recognition …

Fingerprints have been an invaluable tool for law enforcement and forensics for over a
century, motivating research into automated fingerprint-based identification in the early …

Biometric recognition, or simply biometrics, refers to the use of distinctive anatomical and/or
behavioral characteristics or identifiers (eg, fingerprints, face, iris, voice, and hand geometry) …

Discusses methods to estimate the quality as well as validity of a fingerprint image.
Orientation certainty is used to certify the localized texture pattern of the fingerprint images …

An novel impedance sensor for use together with a Switch is provided having a plurality of
substantially parallel drive lines configured to transmit a signal into a surface of a proxi mally …

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Billions of fingerprint images are acquired and matched to protect the national borders and
in a range of egovernance applications. Fast and accurate minutiae detection from …

Contactless fingerprint identification offers significantly higher user convenience, hygiene
and has attracted increasing attention for the deployments. However, the presentation of …

Data centers consume significant amounts of energy. As severs become more energy
efficient with various energy saving techniques, the data center network (DCN) has been …

In this paper, we address the multimodal biometric decision fusion problem. By exploring
into the user-specific approach for learning and threshold setting, four possible paradigms …