Biometrics: Advanced Identity Verification: The Complete Guide

✍ Scribed by Julian Ashbourn (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Biometric identity verification (BIV) offers a radical alternative to passports, PIN numbers, ID cards and driving licences. It uses physiological or behavioural characteristics such as fingerprints, hand geometry, and retinas to check a person's identity. It is therefore much less open to fraudulent use, which makes it ideal for use in voting systems, financial transactions, benefit payment administration, border control, and prison access.
This is the first book to provide business readers with an easy-to-read, non-technical introduction to BIV systems. It explains the background and then tells the reader how to get their system up and running quickly. It will be an invaluable read for practitioners, managers and IT personnel - in fact for anyone considering, or involved in, implementing a BIV system.
Julian Ashbourn was one of the pioneers in integrating biometric technology and has provided input into many prototype BIV systems around the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Where it all began....Pages 1-13
Applications for biometrics....Pages 15-44
Biometric methodologies....Pages 45-64
Identification, verification and templates....Pages 65-78
Implementing biometrics....Pages 79-106
Application Development....Pages 107-132
Moving on....Pages 133-146
Running a biometric pilot scheme....Pages 147-190
Overall conclusions....Pages 191-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-200

✦ Subjects

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Computing Methodologies; Image Processing and Computer Vision