1. Introduction (what is biometrics, types of biometrics, authentication modes, model of a biometric system and its modules, applications, challenges)
2. Performance Measurement and Evaluation Parameters (Choosing a threshold, False acceptance, false rejection, equal error rate, accuracy, CMC curve, ROC curve, Area under ROC curve, d' index)
3. About biometric databases (why needed, what types of scenarios provided, constrained and unconstrained databases)
3. Iris biometric system (demonstration of acquisition model, segmentation, Haar feature extraction, Nearest Neighbour Matching, Results)
4. Feature Extraction methodologies (Local and Global feature, Transformation, Wavelets, Energy features, Feature selection and dimension reduction)
5. Fingerprint biometric system (Overview, alignment and segmentation, core, delta, minutiae detection, matching and performance discussions)
6. Palmprint biometric system (segmentation of rectangular RoI, feature extraction and matching)
7. Overview of 2D and 3D face biometric systems
8. Ear and lip biometric system
9. Multibiometrics
10. Biometric standards
11. Privacy issues, legal aspects

To make students aware of basic structure of biometric systems

To make students aware of privacy and legal aspects of biometric data

To make students conversant with evaluation procedure of a given biometric systems

1. The students will be aware of technical implementation of biometric systems and its challenges
2. The students will be aware of privacy and legal aspect of biometric data

A.A. Ross, P. Flynn, and A.K. Jain, Handbook of Biometrics, Springer , ISBN: 9780387710402

J.L. Wayman, A. Jain, D. Maltoni, and D. Maio, Biometric Systems Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation, Springer , ISBN: 9781852335960

A.K. Jain, A.A. Ross, and K. Nandakumar, Introduction to Biometrics, Springer , ISBN: 9780387773254

A.A. Ross, K. Nandakumar, and A.K. Jain, Handbook of Multibiometrics, Springer , ISBN: 9780387222967

IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS)

Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier