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    An Executive Guide Biometrics
    An Executive Guide Biometrics
    An Executive Guide Biometrics
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    An Executive Guide Biometrics

    By alasdair gilchrist

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    Biometric indicators, such as the subject's photograph have been used by border control for decades to manually identify travelers. However security now requires more stringent tests, so passport control are experimenting with other biometric indicators, such as voice, ear and facial recognition. In this eBook we compare how these indicators compare and how they can be practically deployed in a passport control environment. After all if these indicators work efficiently in passport control then they will work within commercial or industrial environments.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisheralasdair gilchrist
    Release dateJun 20, 2015
    ISBN9781513049335
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      An Executive Guide Biometrics - alasdair gilchrist

      Introduction to Facial Biometrics

      Biometric Case Study #1

      Biometrics Facial Recognition

      Voice Vs Face Biometrics

      Face Recognition – A Lab Demo

      Voice Vs Face as a Biometric Indicator

      Implementation of a Biometric Indicator

      Case Study 3: Report & Demonstration

      Technical Operation

      Implementation of Voice and Ear

      Circumvention of Ear and Voice

      The Advantages & Disadvantages of Ear & Voice Biometrics

      Cost of Implementation

      Ethical Issues

      Alternatives to the Ear Biometric

      Investigation into the Current Biometric Methods in Passport Control

      Case Study

      Recommendations

      Demonstration

      Voice Demo

      Demonstration of Ear Biometric

      Introduction to Facial Biometrics

      Biometrics is one of the great ways to provide two-part authentication. It might mean delays in passport control scenarios but it does add greater granularity to authenticating an individual. Typically, biometric indicators have involved sampling a subject's fingerprints, which is a sound biometric indicator, though iris checks are even more effective. The problem is that both are useless unless you have a genuine sample that you can compare.

      Even new biometric technologies such as voice, ear and facial recognition, which have gained ground as plausible biometric indicators, suffer from that same problem – there must be a sample to compare. In this document, we will examine new techniques for biometric analysis, such as ear, voice (speaker) and facial recognition. We can then examine how passport control can successfully and practically deploy these techniques within immigration, passport control scenario.

      In order to do this we must establish a case study: thankfully a student from one of the Institutes of Ireland, Dublin, Shannon decided to recruit RG Consulting to do their course work for them: here are the results.

      Biometric Case Study #1

      Our first task is to compare the characteristics and effectiveness of voice and face as biometrics. Each has its own specific characteristics, which make it suitable for specific purposes, and we will look at each to determine which would be more suitable for use in passport control or mobile biometric mode.

      Voice as a biometric has been the subject of study for decades but has only recently gained recognition as a reliable indicator of uniqueness. Fingerprints and DNA have long been recognized in the courts of law as being reliable biometric indicators, however voice has yet to gain that same level of confidence despite research showing it to be effective in uniquely identifying an individual. Indeed it has been determined that even identical twins have different vocal acoustic patterns, and that voice biometrics is as effective, if not more so than either DNA or Fingerprints as a biometric indicator. However voice as a biometric still suffers from this question of uniqueness, because just as with fingerprints, no-one can prove that they are truly unique. Furthermore, voice impersonators easily fool the human ear, and as we all know our own voices change with emotion, fatigue, stress and illness. Consequently, In order to understand then how voice can still be used as an accurate indicator of uniqueness, despite its unstable characteristics, we have to understand how voice is processed.

      Voice as a biometric works because each person's acoustic speech pattern is considered to be unique. The reason for this is that our speech patterns are influenced by the size, shape and condition of our throat and mouth. However, it is not our anatomy alone that affects our speech patterns there are also behavioral influences that effect our pitch, tone and style of speech. Therefore, voice is considered to be a behavioral biometric as opposed to a physical biometric such as our

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