The A to Z of biometrics

Fingerprint, iris, palm, gait and keystroke - we've got the lot...

By Steve Ranger, 20 July 2006 13:25

NEWS

Registration

A major part of any system is enrolling or registering the biometrics in the first place.

The list from A to Z

Click on the links below to find out more on each of the entries in the list.

A is for Accuracy
B is for Behavioural biometric
C is for Cash machine
D is for Database
E is for Ear
F is for Facial recognition
G is for Gummi bears
H is for Hand geometry
I is for Iris
J is for Juan Vucetich
K is for Keystroke dynamics
L is for Liveness testing
M is for Mobile phones
N is for Network security
O is for Oxford
P is for Palm
Q is for Queues
R is for Registration
S is for Signature verification
T is for Twins
U is for Universality
V is for Voice verification
W is for Walk
X is for X-ray
Y is for Young
Z is for Zurich Airport

According to research by the London School of Economics on the UK government ID cards plan, registration may have to be repeated every five years for much of the population.

In particular, as people age their biometrics change and become less reliable and so people aged over 65 - around 17 per cent of the UK population - may have to update their information more frequently.

Comments

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  1. 1. Karen Challinor

    It would be interesting to know which of these have published positive and negative failure rates

  2. 2. Mike Murray

    Biometric Access Protection Devices and their Programs Put to the Test

    http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/11/114/

  3. 3. Martin George

    Iris recognition has actually been around for more than 20 years - a key patent "Flom and Safir" expired in Feb 2006. This has opened to door to commercial competition. Companies like ours are opening up the market with low cost camera devices, and low cost business models for algorithm deployment on devices and on server farms, where large scale cross-matching must take place for ID applications like Cards and Border Control.

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