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Atypical Facial Landmark Localisation with Stacked Hourglass Networks: A Study on 3D Facial Modelling for Medical Diagnosis
While facial biometrics has been widely used for identification purpose, it has recently been researched as medical biometrics for a range of diseases. In this chapter, we investigate the facial landmark detec...
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Using Age Information as a Soft Biometric Trait for Face Image Analysis
Soft biometrics refers to a group of traits that can provide some information about an individual but are inadequate for identification or recognition purposes. Age, as an important soft biometric trait, can b...
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Develo** Cloud-Based Intelligent Touch Behavioral Authentication on Mobile Phones
Mobile devices especially mobile phones have become a major target for cyber-criminals, there is a great need to design appropriate authentication mechanisms to protect users’ private information. The majority...
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Multi-, Hyper-Spectral Biometrics Modalities
In this chapter, it will be introduced the different categories of multi-hyper-spectral imaging approaches for biometric modalities. Afterwards, indirect approach will be considered, namely: prerequisites conc...
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Person Re-identification with Soft Biometrics Through Deep Learning
Re-identification of persons is usually based on primary biometric features such as their faces, fingerprints, iris or gait. However, in most existing video surveillance systems, it is difficult to obtain thes...
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Leveraging Cloud-Based Resources for Automated Biometric Identification
The rapid rise of cloud computing technology marks the next wave of enterprise information technology, catering up a market demand of a digitized economy to deliver traditional utilities such as electricity, g...
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Time Series Modeling for Activity Prediction
Human Motion Analysis (HMA) is a highly interdisciplinary research area which attracts great interests from computer vision, machine learning, multimedia, and medical research communities, due to the potential...
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Actionlets and Activity Prediction
The increasing ubiquitousness of multimedia information in today's world has positioned video as a favored information vehicle, and given rise to an astonishing generation of social media and surveillance foot...