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  1. The Edward S Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, M5S3G4, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou & Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Henk C. A. van Tilborg

  2. Center for Secure Information Systems, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4422, USA

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Micheli-Tzanakou, E., Plataniotis, K.N. (2011). Biometrics: Terms and Definitions. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_730

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