Multimodal biometric recognition using multiresolution transforms

Abstract

Biometrics refers to the technology of recognizing the identity of an newlineindividual by measuring and analyzing the human body physical newlinecharacteristics such as irises fingerprints facial patterns eye retinas voice newlinepatterns and behavioral characteristics like signature and typing rhythm It is newlineused in critical applications such as secure access control forensic sciences newlineprison security and international border crossings Previous nonbiometric newlinemethods namely identification ID card or Personal Identification Number newlinePIN can be lost shared manipulated or stolen password may be forgotten newlineand signatures can be imitated newline newline