Bob Zhang

Shuping Zhao

Lunke Fei

Shuyi Li

This book offers a scholarly examination of innovative biometric recognition technologies, focusing on palmprint, finger-knuckle-print, palm-vein, dorsal-hand-vein, and multi-modal hand-based recognition systems. It is tailored for an academic and professional audience, including researchers, academics, and industry practitioners engaged in the field of biometrics, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. The book's significance lies in its comprehensive analysis of state-of-the-art hand-based biometric recognition methods. It provides a systematic overview of various traits and recent technological advancements, offering readers insights into the practical applications and theoretical foundations of these emerging biometric modalities. The content encompasses detailed discussions on feature extraction, matching algorithms, and fusion techniques, highlighting their implications for enhancing authentication accuracy and security. The primary benefits of this book include its thorough coverage of advanced hand-based biometric recognition, its presentation of the latest research findings, and its exploration of cross-disciplinary applications. It is intended to equip readers with an in-depth understanding of the current landscape and future prospects of hand-based biometrics. The book assumes that readers possess a foundational knowledge of pattern recognition and machine learning, which are prerequisites for grasping the presented concepts and methodologies.

Advanced Hand-based Biometrics

David Zhang

Qijun Zhao

What features or information can we observe from a face, and how can these information help us to understand the person concerned, in terms of their well-being and what can we learn about and from each given feature? This book answers these questions by first dividing a face's multiple characteristics into two main categories: original (or physiological) features and features that change over a lifetime. The first category, original features, may be further divided into two sub-classes: features special (or unique) to an individual, and features common to a particular group. The second, changed features, can also be subdivided into two groups: features altered due to disease or features altered by other external factors. From these four sub-categories, four different applications — facial identification using original and special features; beauty analysis using original common features; facial diagnosis by disease changed features; and expression recognition through affect-changed features — are identified.The book will benefit researchers, professionals, and graduate students working in the field of computer vision, pattern recognition, security/clinical practice, and beauty analysis, and will also be useful for interdisciplinary research.

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