Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
This paper details a fully automated face authentication system using low-cost near infrared imaging. The image normalization step consists of eye center localization, scale corre...
Biometric authentication and privacy protection are conflicting issues in a practical system. Since biometrics cannot be revoked or canceled if compromised duo to the permanent as...
Although libraries are public spaces in which individuals engage in a range of social and informational activities, few researchers in library and information science use ethnogra...
User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...