Advanced pattern recognition technologies with applications to biometrics

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Zhang, David, 1949-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Biometric identification.; Biometric discriminant analysis; Biometric fusion; Biometric recognition technologies; Decision level fusion; Discriminant criteria for pattern classification; Feature extraction level fusion; Feature fusion using complex discriminator; Linear discriminant analysis; Matching score level fusion; Novel facial feature extraction methods; Orthogonal discriminant analysis methods; Parameterized discriminant analysis methods; Tensor linear discriminant analysis; Tensor principal component analysis; Tensor technology
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With the increasing concerns on security breaches and transaction fraud, highly reliable and convenient personal verification and identification technologies are more and more requisite in our social activities and national services. Biometrics, used to recognize the identity of an individual, are g...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Overview / David Zhang, Fengxi Song, Yong Xu, Zhizhen Liang
• 2. Discriminant analysis for biometric recognition
• 3. Discriminant criteria for pattern classification
• 4. Orthogonal discriminant analysis methods
• 5. Parameterized discriminant analysis methods
• 6. Two novel facial feature extraction methods
• 7. Tensor space
• 8. Tensor principal component analysis
• 9. Tensor linear discriminant analysis
• 10. Tensor independent component analysis and tensor non-negative factorization
• 11. Other tensor analysis and further direction
• 12. From single biometrics to multi-biometrics
• 13. Feature level fusion
• 14. Matching score level fusion
• 15. Decision level fusion
• 16. Book summary.