Our daily interactions are based on recognizing people. As information technology advances, our interactions will be accomplished through newly designed interfaces, with a vital element being the automated process of recognition of a person's real identity: Biometrics. In recent years, biometrics has moved from using fingerprints, to many different methods of assessing human physical and behavioural traits.

This book introduces a new performance evaluation framework designed to give complete coverage of performance evaluation of major biometric systems. Two key issues are presented: The first is to give a unique snapshot of the performance evaluation of various biometrics within a common evaluation framework. The second is the presence of benchmarking evaluation framework, to be used in future performance evaluations.Features: - provides a global perspective with a common evaluation scheme and methodology; - offers readers a tool for a better evaluation of their algorithms by giving them the instruments to fully reproduce the benchmarking (reference) experiments (software, database, experimental protocols); - examines current research results with this framework.This unique text combines state-of-the-art research with practical tools for researchers and graduates in the field of biometrics.

Introduction-About the Need of an Evaluation Framework in Biometrics.- The BioSecure Benchmarking Methodology for Biometric Performance Evaluation.- Iris Recognition.- Fingerprint Recognition.- Hand Recognition.- Online Handwritten Signature Verification.- Text-independent Speaker Verification.- 2D Face Recognition.- 3D Face Recognition.- Talking-face Verification.- BioSecure Multimodal Evaluation Campaign 2007 (BMEC'2007).