| Development of a web-based,
multibiometric database |
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| Rohin Govindrajan, Simona Crihalmeanu, Lawrence Hornak, Arun Ross,
Stephanie Schuckers |
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| Biometrics, described as the science of identifying an individual
based on one or more of their physiological or behavioral characteristics,
is a relatively a new and exciting field encompassing the areas of
computer science, electrical engineering and statistics. It is a rapidly
growing field offering plenty of opportunities for research especially
in the areas of information assurance and access control. Unfortunately
biometric researchers face numerous hurdles due to the lack of reliable,
accurate and adequate biometric data for their research. An appreciable
amount of time is lost in data collection, which in most cases is
unorganized, non-centralized and informal. This results in a high
rate of data loss, inferior data retrieval times, lack of data integrity
and consistency, limited reusability of data and large amount of redundancy.
The few formalized biometric databases that do exist are mostly uni-modal,
limited by age groups or race, non-centralized and are generally not
made public. The system to be developed is a web enabled, centralized,
multi-modal, unbiased and formal data store that is expected to alleviate
some or most of the problems faced by biometricians on a day-to-day
basis. The system being developed at West Virginia University, Morgantown
will be initially designed to meet the specific needs of the researchers,
faculty members and students present there and later adapted and extended
to account for the needs of the biometric research community. |
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