Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : CS6151 : Biometric Systems { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Sambit Bakshi
Syllabus
| Module 1 : |
Introduction (what is biometrics, types of biometrics, authentication modes, model of a biometric system and its modules, applications, challenges) |
| Module 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) |
| Module 3 : |
About biometric databases (why needed, what types of scenarios provided, constrained and unconstrained databases) |
| Module 4 : |
Iris biometric system (demonstration of acquisition model, segmentation, Haar feature extraction, Nearest Neighbour Matching, Results) |
| Module 5 : |
Feature Extraction methodologies (Local and Global features, Transformation, Wavelets, Energy features, Feature selection and dimension reduction) |
| Module 6 : |
Fingerprint biometric system (Overview, alignment and segmentation, core, delta, minutiae detection, matching and performance discussions) |
| Module 7 : |
Palmprint biometric system (segmentation of rectangular RoI, feature extraction and matching) |
| Module 8 : |
2D and 3D Face biometric systems |
| Module 9 : |
Ear, lip gait and other biometric systems |
| Module 10 : |
Biometric standards |
| Module 11 : |
Privacy issues, legal aspects |
Course Objective
| 1 . |
To make students aware of basic structure of biometric systems |
| 2 . |
To make students aware of privacy and legal aspects of biometric data |
| 3 . |
To make students conversant with evaluation procedure of a given biometric systems |
Course Outcome
| 1 . |
The students will be aware of the technical implementation of biometric systems and their challenges |
| 2 . |
The students will be aware of the privacy and legal aspects of biometric data |
Essential Reading
| 1 . |
A.A. Ross, P. Flynn, and A.K. Jain, Handbook of Biometrics, Springer , ISBN: 9780387710402 |
| 2 . |
J.L. Wayman, A. Jain, D. Maltoni, and D. Maio, Biometric Systems Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation, Springer , ISBN: 9781852335960 |
Supplementary Reading
| 1 . |
A.A. Ross, P. Flynn, and A.K. Jain, Introduction to Biometrics, Springer , ISBN: 9780387773254 |
| 2 . |
A.A. Ross, K. Nandakumar, and A.K. Jain, Handbook of Multibiometrics, Springer , ISBN: 9780387222967 |
Journal and Conferences
| 1 . |
Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier |
| 2 . |
IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS) |