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Activity and Event Related Biometrics

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Second Generation Biometrics: The Ethical, Legal and Social Context

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Abstract

In this chapter a brief overview on the field of biometrics will be given and the current advances in the field of behavioural biometrics will be discussed. We explain the need for the transition from the classic biometrics to the new concept of activity related biometrics (and specifically to the event triggered ones). We claim that the recognition capacity of various activities varies, according to the type of the activity and thus, we form an initial categorization to normal and abnormal activities. The collection of these biometric data is of high importance and thus, we suggest a dual approach to the anthropometrical tracking of the user, followed by a method for the intact extraction of invariant biometric features from the collected temporal data. The ethical issues risen from the collecting of personal data are thoroughly discussed. Possible applications and innovative usages of such behavioral biometrics are explored and presented in the current work.

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Abbreviations

APF:

Annealed particle filter

ATM:

Automatic teller machine

CIT:

Circular integration radon transform

DNA:

Deoxyribo nucleic acid

GMM:

Gaussian mixture model

HHMM:

Hierarchical hidden Markov models

HMM:

Hidden Markov model

MHI:

Motion history image

PF:

Particle filter

RIT:

Radial integration radon transform

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Anastasios Drosou

  2. Informatics and Telematics Institute, 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road, 361, Thermi-Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece

    Dimitrios Tzovaras

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    Emilio Mordini

  2. Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Informatics & Telematics Institute, 1st km Thermi-Panorama Road, Thermi-Thessaloniki, 570 01, Greece

    Dimitros Tzovaras

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Drosou, A., Tzovaras, D. (2012). Activity and Event Related Biometrics. In: Mordini, E., Tzovaras, D. (eds) Second Generation Biometrics: The Ethical, Legal and Social Context. The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3892-8_6

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