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Connecticut's Biometric Imaging Project - Provides a journal, information and links. For Connecticut's purposes, biometric imaging will mean taking a scan of an individuals two index fingers for purposes of multiple case fraud detection.
International Biometric Group
Biometric Consortium: Research and Databases - Directory of links to various to kinds of identification methods.
Biometrics Discussion Group - French biometrics discussion group. Groupe de discussion en français sur la Biométrie.
The Biometrics Discussion Group - Discussion list for anyone interested in the technology.
Biometrics Privacy Initiative - Organization discussing finger scan, voice scan, iris scan, retina scan technologies, standards and privacy issues.
Biometrics Publications - Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Lab Department of Computer Science And Engineering Michigan State University.
Biometrics References - Biometric Consortium
CardTech SecurTech - conferences and exhibitions of smart cards, biometrics, and other advanced identification and security technology.
Ed Germans AFIS Links page - (AFIS - Automated Fingerprint Identification)
Face Database, Articles - Olivetti Research, Ltd
Face Location - Michigan State University
FaceSnap recorder - digital video recording and face recognition - digital video recorder with built-in face recognition (C-VIS Computer Vision und Automation GmbH).
The FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard - (uses wavelets)- Chris Brislawn home page
findBIOMETRICS.com - Resource for Biometric technologies and applications. Articles, reports, vendor directory and daily press releases.
Fingerprint Classification by Directional Image Partitioning - Raffaele Cappelli, Alessandra Lumini, Dario Maio, Member, IEEE, and Davide Maltoni (Trans. PAMI, Abstract)
Fingerprint Enhancement by Shape Adaptation of Scale-Space Operators with Automatic Scale-Selection - Andrés Almansa and Tony Lindeberg Technical Report TRITA-NA/P--98/03--SE.
Fingerprint Image Enhancement: Algorithm and Performance Evaluation - Trans. PAMI, abstract.
Fusion of Face and Speech Data for Person Identity Verification - Souheil Ben-Yacoub, Yousri Abdeljaoued, and Eddy Mayoraz (IDIAP-RR 99-03, 1999).
GFF Format Summary - Provides content regarding data format for the interchange of fingerprint information.
HAND GEOMETRY - Michigan State University
The Importance of Benchmarking - (Fingerprint identification)
Iris recognition - Webpage of John Daugman, Cambridge University (UK) teacher and researcher in computer vision, neuroscience, and pattern recognition; inventor of iris recognition.
MultiBiometrics - Michigan State University
A normal glass pane? - The possible future of finger and hand recognition and identification (Optel, PL)
An Open Interstate Matching Specification - This document describes a standard data format for the interchange of client fingerprint and facial information between dissimilar human services assistance programs. The Managing Double Dipping (MaDD) specification is a tag-based file format for storing and interchanging data and images and is compliant with the ANSI/NIST standard for fingerprint exchange. (Sagem Morpho Incorp.)
Pattern Recognition Information - Links
Recent News (Speech Recognition Update) - TMA Associates
Review and evaluation of Biometric Techniques - INFOSEC (EU), ETS: Preparatory Studies
Scafo.org: Thumbprinting Gets Thumbs Up - By Kalpana Srinivasan, The Associated Press, April 1997
SJSU.edu - Article on the functions of biometric identification devices.
Speaker Identification by Lip Reading - By Juergen Luettin, Neil Thacker and Steve Beet. Paper describing a new approach to speaker identification based on lipreading. [PDF]
Speech Research - Links
The Telephony Voice User Interface - Market Studies and Source Guides (William S. Meisel - TMA Associates).
ThinkQuest Library: The Basics of Biometrics - Explains characteristics of different parts of the body can be used to aid identification.
TMA Associates (CA) - Provides publications and consulting in speech recognition and other advanced speech technologies, including speech recognition newsletter. Includes recent news. Also publishes market studies.
Visual Person Identification Using Lip Motion Features - Chihara-Lab (Japan)
YOHO CD-ROM Voice Verification Corpus - A standard database for testing voice verification systems (Biometric Consortium).
INS Passenger Accelerated Service System (INSPASS) - About the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service's possible future use of biometric technologies in identifying incoming passengers. (January 4, 1996) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.