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Biometrics: A Grand Challenge

Category: Security

Tags: biometric, biometrics

Overview AFIS systems have been providing terrific value to the society by using a good integration of automatic and manual processes. The scope of this paper is intended to expand the frontiers of the state of the art biometric technology performance for their effective widespread deployment. This paper explores the fundamental roadblocks for widespread adoption of biometrics as a means of automatic person identification: effective and efficient pattern recognition; ensuring system integrity, system application integrity and return on investment.

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Publisher
Michigan State University
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Sep 22, 2006
Format
White Papers
Topics
Biometrics, Security Management

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