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Authentication is undoubtedly an important task for all systems providing a component responsible for the interaction between humans and computers. Traditional authentication techniques like PINs, passwords or ID cards show significant drawbacks: they might be forgotten, misplaced or lost, or even stolen, copied or forged. Biometrics use physical or behavioral characteristics to verify the identity of a person and thus overcome these problems. In this respect, biometric technology may be easier and more comfortable to use.
First, a short overview of biometric technology in general is given. Then, the main part of this chapter explains the biometric technologies integrated in the SmartKom system. In particular, a new approach to combine several biometrics in a multimodal device is presented. The performance of this proposed combination method is shown to be superior to that of the single biometric subsystems.
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Grashey, S., Schuster, M. (2006). Multiple Biometrics. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36678-4_12
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