Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society is a comprehensive and accessible source of state-of-the-art information on all existing and emerging biometrics: the science of automatically identifying individuals based on their physiological or behavior characteristics. In particular, the book covers:

- General principles and ideas of designing biometric-based systems and their underlying tradeoffs

- Identification of important issues in the evaluation of biometrics-based systems

- Integration of biometric cues, and the integration of biometrics with other...