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
- Biometrics information including reports on hand geometry, iris, retina, finger scan, and face geometry. IBG's BiometricStore, Comdex and Bio1.com.
Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication - Conference
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.
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 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.
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.)
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.
Ultrasonic setup for fingerprint patterns detection and evaluation - (Optel, PL)
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)