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Call for nominations for the New IAPR Biometrics Investigator Award (Deadline: May 1, 2013)

Long Distance Heterogeneous Face Database (LDHF-DB) released

Biometric Books

"Introduction to Biometrics" by A. K. Jain, A. A. Ross, and K. Nandakumar
"Handbook of Face Recognition" by S. Z. Li and A. K. Jain
Other biometric books

Upcoming Conferences

ICB 2013, June 4-7, 2013, Madrid, Spain.
Biometric Summer School, June 10-15, 2013, Alghero, Italy.
CVPR 2013, June 23-28, 2013, Portland, Oregon.
SIBGRAPI 2013, Aug. 5-9, 2013, Arequipa, Peru.
BIOSIG 2013, Sept. 5-6, 2013, Darmstadt,German.
ICIP 2013, Sep. 15-18, 2013, Melbourne, Australia.
BTAS 2013, Sep. 29-Oct. 3, 2013, Washington, D.C..
ICCST 2013, Oct. 8-11, 2013, Medellín, Colombia.
WIFS 2013, Dec. 3-6, 2013, Guangzhou, China.
ICPR 2014, Aug. 24-28, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.

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What is Biometrics?

The field of biometrics examines the unique physical or behavioral traits that can be used to determine a person’s identity. Biometric recognition is the automatic recognition of a person based on one or more of these traits. The word “biometrics” is also used to denote biometric recognition methods. For example, fingerprint, face, or iris biometric features are sometimes described as single biometrics. Biometric technology can prevent fraud, enhance security, and curtail identity theft. More...

     
 
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