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Introduction to Biometrics

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In this chapter, we give an overall perception to biometrics technologies and systems. First, the background of biometrics is introduced in Section 1.1. After some basic concepts, taxonomy and history of biometrics are described in Section 1.2. Section 1.3 discusses the principle and performance evaluation of biometrics systems. Next, biometrics applications are briefly reviewed. A whole book perspective is finally given in Section 1.5.

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Zhang, D.D. (2000). Introduction to Biometrics. In: Automated Biometrics. The International Series on Asian Studies in Computer and Information Science, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4519-4_1

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