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This chapter presents the background of a biometric system and its characteristics, its performance evaluation parameters, and its limitations. The basic overview of the multibiometric system and the motivation for the proposed research work is also given in this chapter.

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Thanki, R.M., Dwivedi, V.J., Borisagar, K.R. (2018). Introduction. In: Multibiometric Watermarking with Compressive Sensing Theory. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73183-4_1

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