Biometrics beyond the visible spectrum: imaging technologies and applications

  • Authors:
  • Miriam Moreno-Moreno;Julian Fierrez;Javier Ortega-Garcia

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • BioID_MultiComm'09 Proceedings of the 2009 joint COST 2101 and 2102 international conference on Biometric ID management and multimodal communication
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Human body images acquired at visible spectrum have inherent restrictions that hinder the performance of person recognition systems built using that kind of information (e.g. scene artefacts under varying illumination conditions). One promising approach for dealing with those limitations is using images acquired beyond the visible spectrum. This paper reviews some of the existing human body imaging technologies working beyond the visible spectrum (X-ray, Infrared, Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave imaging technologies). The benefits and drawbacks of each technology and their biometric applications are presented.