Template-free biometric-key generation by means of fuzzy genetic clustering

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-191

  Sheng, Weiguo ^b   Howells, Gareth ^b   Fairhurst, Michael ^b   Deravi, Farzin ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biometric authentication; Clustering; Feature evaluation; Handwritten signatures; Security

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION; FEATURE EVALUATION; FUZZY GENETIC CLUSTERING; HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURES;

BIOMETRICS;

EID: 44049084315     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2008.922056     Document Type: Article

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