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Extensive adoption of video surveillance, affecting many aspects of the daily life, alarms the concerned public about the increasing invasion into personal privacy. To address these concerns, many tools have been proposed for protection of personal privacy ...

2012

Selection and Combination of Local Gabor Classiﬁers for Robust Face Veriﬁcation

Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Nuri Murat Arar, Hua Gao

Gabor features have been extensively used for facial image analysis due to their powerful representation capabilities. This paper focuses on selecting and combining multiple Gabor classiﬁers that are trained on, for example, different scales and local regi ...

2012

Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards: Lessons Learned

Andrzej Drygajlo

This paper presents advances of biometrics and their future development as identified during the COST 2101 Action "Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards". The main objective of the Action was to investigate novel technologies for unsupervised m ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2011

SenGuard: Passive User Identification on Smartphones Using Multiple Sensors

Jiangyan Yang, Feng Yang

User identification and access control have become a high demand feature on mobile devices because those devices are wildly used by employees in corporations and government agencies for business and store increasing amount of sensitive data. This paper des ...

2011

Palm Vein Recognition with Local Binary Patterns and Local Derivative Patterns

Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi, Andrzej Drygajlo

Palm vein feature extraction from near infrared images is a challenging problem in hand pattern recognition. In this paper, a promising new approach based on local texture patterns is proposed. First, operators and histograms of multi-scale Local Binary Pa ...

2011

Inter-session Variability Modelling and Joint Factor Analysis for Face Authentication

Sébastien Marcel

This paper applies inter-session variability modelling and joint factor analysis to face authentication using Gaussian Mixture Models. These techniques, originally developed for speaker authentication, aim to explicitly model and remove detrimental within- ...

Idiap2011

Activity Recognition in Opportunistic Sensor Environments

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Hesam Sagha, Hamidreza Bayati, Daniel Roggen

OPPORTUNITY is project under the EU FET-Open funding1 in which we develop mobile systems to recognize human activity in dynamically varying sensor setups. The system autonomously discovers available sensors around the user and self-configures to recognize ...

2011

Competition on Counter Measures to 2-D Facial Spoofing Attacks

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Murali Mohan Chakka, Zhiwei Zhang

Spoofing identities using photographs is one of the most common techniques to attack 2-D face recognition systems. There seems to exist no comparative studies of different techniques using the same protocols and data. The motivation behind this competition ...

2011

Darwinians, Communitarians and Missionaries: The Role of Founder Identity in Entrepreneurship

Marc Gruber, Emmanuelle Fauchart Foray

Drawing on social identity theory, we explore the identities, behaviors and actions of 49 firm founders in the sports-related equipment industry. Our analysis suggests the existence of three pure types of founder identities and shows how these identities s ...

Academy of Management2011

The Inconvenient Truth about Web Certificates

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic, Vincent Bindschaedler

HTTPS is the de facto standard for securing Internet communications. Although it is widely deployed, the security provided with HTTPS in practice is dubious. HTTPS may fail to provide security for multiple reasons, mostly due to certificate-based authentic ...

2011

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