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Biometrics

Biometrics. Ryan Epling. What Are Biometrics?. “ Automated methods of verifying or recognizing a living person on the basis of some physiological characteristics, such as fingerprint or iris patterns, or some aspects of behavior, such as handwriting or keystroke patterns. “.

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Biometrics

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  1. Biometrics Ryan Epling

  2. What Are Biometrics? “Automated methods of verifying or recognizing a living person on the basis of some physiological characteristics, such as fingerprint or iris patterns, or some aspects of behavior, such as handwriting or keystroke patterns. “

  3. Types of Biometrics • Fingerprint Recognition • Facial Recognition • Iris Recognition • Retinal Scan • Hand Geometry

  4. Fingerprint Recognition Matches a specific fingerprint against a database of fingerprints to verify an identity. • Advantages: • Fingerprints are unique • Technology involved is reasonably priced • Commonly accepted practice • Very accurate • Difficult to reproduce • Disadvantages: • More intrusive than username/password type identification • Injuries can effect the fingerprint scanning process

  5. Fingerprint Identification • Possible Uses: • Gaining access to a computer system • Gaining access to a secure facility • Proof of identification in the US court system • Airport Security • ATMs

  6. Facial Recognition Takes a digital image and compares facial features against a database to identify an individual. • Advantages: • Faces are captured in public • Can be done from a distance • No physical contact necessary • Criminal Mug shots readily available • Disadvantages: • Invasion of privacy

  7. Facial Recognition • Possible Uses: • Smart Home • Identifying African Elephants • Security at sporting events • Airport Security • To prevent voter fraud

  8. Iris Recognition Takes a high resolution digital image of an individual’s irises, and uses pattern recognition techniques to verify the individual’s identity. • Advantages: • Internal organism, so it is well protected • Shape is more predictable • Iris texture is unique even in genetically identical individuals • Texture stays very stable over long periods of time • Disadvantages: • Incompatible with the fingerprint recognition systems that have already been invested in • Difficult to perform if the individual does not cooperate

  9. Iris Recognition • Possible Uses: • Passports • Border control (United Arab Emirates) • CANPASS Air (pre-approved, low risk) • ATMs • Airport personnel identification

  10. Sources • http://www.isaca.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=23568&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm • http://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB396/DB396.pdf • http://www.leidenuniv.nl/interfac/cml/pmo/students/elephind/introrec.pdf • http://www.unc.edu/~wknight/Fingerprinting/images/FingerprintReader.jpg • http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/24/iris.explainer/index.html • http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/17/face.time.idg/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_recognition_system • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition

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