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Can Soft Biometric Traits Assist User Recognition?

Overview Biometrics is rapidly gaining acceptance as the technology that can meet the ever increasing need for security in critical applications. Biometric systems automatically recognize individuals based on their physiological and behavioral characteristics. Hence, the fundamental requirement of any biometric recognition system is a human trait having several desirable properties like universality, distinctiveness, permanence, collectability, acceptability, and resistance to circumvention. However, a human characteristic that possesses all these properties has not yet been identified. This paper presents the motivation for utilizing soft biometric information and analyzes how the soft biometric traits can be automatically extracted and incorporated in the decision making process of the primary biometric system.

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Publisher	Michigan State University	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2004	Downloads	108
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Biometrics

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