This course provides fundamentals about techniques to verify or recognize the identity of a living person based on the analysis of biological/physiological traits and/or behavioural features.
In detail:
• Biometrics overview (history of biometrics, applications)
• Recognition, identification and verification
• Privacy, security and ethics
• Overview of image processing
• Physiological biometric systems: fingerprint recognition, face recognition, iris recognition, retina recognition, hand recognition, vein patterns
• Behavioral biometric systems: keystroke dynamics, signature recognition, voice recognition, gait recognition
• Multi-modal biometric systems
• Biometric applications