Biometrics (CSE 40537/60537) -> Lecture notes

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Adam Czajka

Lecture 10: Biometric passports

Presentation slides (zipped PDF): What is the biometric passport? Biometrics in e-passports. Structure and security of e-passports. (updated: Dec. 9, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 9: Statistical evaluation of biometrics

Presentation slides (PDF): Evaluation in biometrics, modeling of uncertainty. Evaluation of data acquisition, enrollment and authentication processed. Use of statistical estimators in biometrics. Statistical hypothesis testing and its relation to biometric evaluation. Selected good practices. (updated: Dec. 7, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 8: Security of biometrics

Presentation slides (ZIP): Biometric system: components, enrollment, verification, identification. Volnurability of system components. Presentation attacks and their detection, subversive vs. suspicious actions, types of presentation attacks. Security of biometric sensors, fingerprint liveness detection, iris liveness detection. Security of biometric transmission channels. Security of data carriers, biometric smart cards. (updated: Nov. 23, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 7: Speaker recognition

Presentation slides (PDF): Short history, speaker recognition variants. Pre-processing of voice signals, filtering, detection, representation. Speaker features, formants, Lucier's experiment. Feature extraction: auto-regressive models, independent component analysis (ICA), mel-scale, homomorphic deconvolution, cepstral features. (updated: Oct. 31, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 6: Recognition of handwritten signatures

Presentation slides (PDF): Definition of a biometric signature. Signature capture. Signature data processing. Global features. Signature comparison, use of classifiers, use of dynamic time warping (updated: Oct. 19, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 5: Hand biometrics

Presentation slides (PDF): Hand-related modalities. Palm print. Hand geometry. Hand vein recognition. Finger veins. Hand temperature. (updated: Oct. 7, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 4: Face recognition

Lecture by Prof. Domingo Mery
Presentation slides - Day 1 (PDF)
Presentation slides - Day 2 (PDF)
MATLAB code

Lecture 3: Iris recognition

Presentation slides (PDF): Iris genesis and its structure. Brief history of iris recognition. Iris image capture and representation. Iris image segmentation. Building the iris code. Iris code matching. (complete version, updated: Sept. 25, 2014 by A.Czajka)

Lecture 2: Fingerprints recognition

Presentation slides (PDF): Historical background. Observation levels, basic elements, level 1 features: core and singular points, level 2 features: minutiae, level 3 features. Fingerprint image capture. Fingerprint image pre-processing. Recognition methods. Minutiae detection. Minutiae matching. (updated: Sept. 11, 2014 by A.Czajka - final and full version)

Lecture 1: What is biometrics?

Presentation slides (PDF): Basics, biometric modalities, expected properties of biometrics, brief history of biometrics, biometric system, system errors and decision making (updated: Sept. 2, 2014 by A.Czajka -- corrected slides #39 and #40)