Is biometrics as a service the next giant leap, as Jeremy Rose asks? New trends in consumer applications seem to testify this revolution. However, it is worth wondering to what extent both company infrastructures and the market are actually ready for …
The guest editors of the IEEE Cloud Computing special issue on Biometrics-as-a-Service discuss the benefits and challenges of using cloud computing with biometric authentication systems as well as the articles included in this issue. Three potential …
Physiological measures are widely studied from a medical point of view. Most applications lie in the field of diagnosis of heart attacks, as regards the ECG, or the detection of epileptic events, in the case of the EEG. In the last ten years, these …
The increasing popularity of smartphones amongst the population laid the basis for a wide range of applications aimed at security and privacy protection. Very modern mobile devices have recently demonstrated the feasibility of using a camera sensor …
In the last fifteen years, smartphones have become very popular amongst the population, with the subsequent development of dozens of applications aimed at providing security to these portable devices. Nowadays, the cutting edge devices are also …
Interest in the security of individuals has increased in recent years. This increase has in turn led to much wider deployment of surveillance cameras worldwide, and consequently, automated surveillance systems research has received more attention …
Soft biometrics have been emerging to complement other traits and are particularly useful for poor quality data. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm to estimate human head poses and to infer soft biometric labels based on the 3D …
The worldwide diffusion of latest generations mobile devices, namely smartphones and tablets, represents the technological premise to a new wave of applications for which reliable owner identification is becoming a key requirement. This crucial task …
Multi-biometric systems are a powerful solution to deal with limitations of single classifiers, therefore improving the final recognition accuracy. The sub-systems composing the final architecture often return supplementary indices of input quality …