Towards a measure of biometric information

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 210-213

  Adler, Andy ^a   Youmaran, Richard ^a   Loyka, Sergey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biometric features; Face recognition; Information content; Relative entropy

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRIC FEATURES; INFORMATION CONTENT; RELATIVE ENTROPY;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 39049165071     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2006.277447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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