Whether in passports, credit cards, laptops or mobile phones, automated methods of identifying people through their anatomical features or behavioural traits are an increasing feature of modern life.
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Jain, A. K., Bolle, R. & Pankanti, S. (eds) Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society (Springer, Heidelberg, 2006).
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Ross, A., Nandakumar, K. & Jain, A. K. Handbook of Multibiometrics (Springer, Heidelberg, 2006).
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Jain, A. Biometric recognition. Nature 449, 38–40 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/449038a
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