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Biometrics: A Grand Challenge

Overview AFIS systems have been providing terrific value to the society by using a good integration of automatic and manual processes. The scope of this paper is intended to expand the frontiers of the state of the art biometric technology performance for their effective widespread deployment. This paper explores the fundamental roadblocks for widespread adoption of biometrics as a means of automatic person identification: effective and efficient pattern recognition; ensuring system integrity, system application integrity and return on investment.

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Publisher	Michigan State University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2004	Downloads	194
Format	White Papers
Topics	Biometrics, Security Management

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