Soft biometrics for surveillance: An overview

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue , 2013, Pages 327-352

  Reid, D A ^a   Samangooei, S ^a   Chen, C ^b   Nixon, M S ^a   Ross, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusion; Identification; Soft biometrics; Surveillance; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878030928     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53859-8.00013-8     Document Type: Chapter

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