Deep Learning for Biometrics

Dr. Bir Bhanu is Bourns Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the Center for Research in Intelligent Systems at the University of California at Riverside, USA. Some of his other Springer publications include the titles Video Bioinformatics, Distributed Video Sensor Networks, and Human Recognition at a Distance in Video. Dr. Ajay Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

• Part I: Deep Learning for Face Biometrics.- The Functional Neuroanatomy of Face Processing: Insights from Neuroimaging and Implications for Deep Learning.- Real-Time Face Identification via Multi-Convolutional Neural Network and Boosted Hashing Forest.- CMS-RCNN: Contextual Multi-Scale Region-Based CNN for Unconstrained Face Detection.- Part II: Deep Learning for Fingerprint, Fingervein and Iris Recognition.- Latent Fingerprint Image Segmentation Using Deep Neural Networks.- Finger Vein Identification Using Convolutional Neural Network and Supervised Discrete Hashing.- Iris Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Networks.- Part III: Deep Learning for Soft Biometrics.- Two-Stream CNNs for Gesture-Based Verification and Identification: Learning User Style.- DeepGender2: A Generative Approach Toward Occlusion and Low Resolution Robust Facial Gender Classification via Progressively Trained Attention Shift Convolutional Neural Networks (PTAS-CNN) and Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN).- Gender Classification from NIR Iris Images Using Deep Learning.- Deep Learning for Tattoo Recognition.- Part IV: Deep Learning for Biometric Security and Protection.- Learning Representations for Cryptographic Hash Based Face Template Protection.- Deep Triplet Embedding Representations for Liveness Detection.

“This book, which covers different deep learning neural architectures for solving an extended set of problems in the area of biometrics, is sure to catch the attention of scholars and researchers working in the field.” (CK Raju, Computing Reviews, February, 2019)​