PATTERN MATCHING USING BIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES
Abstract
This present century is full of inventions and discovery, which lead to the invention of many sophisticated things. The more the things are the more the security is needed. This has lead to the invention of many security items. The information age is quickly revolutionizing the way transactions are completed. Every day actions are increasingly being handled electronically, Instead of with pencil and paper or face to face. This growth in electronic transactions has resulted in a greater demand fast and accurate user identification and authentication. Biometric technology is a way to achieve fast, user-friendly authentication with a high level of accuracy.
While the word “pattern matching using biometrics” sounds very new and “high-tech” in technical terms, It is the automated technique of measuring a physical characteristic or personal trait of an individual and comparing that characteristic or trait to a database for the purposes of recognizing an individual. This report will highlight some of the popular methods, multimodal biometrics, some of the benefits of using this system for authentication, performance metrics and emerging applications in day to day life.
It is evident that our identity is frequently required; for the time being we use a wide assortment of methods to verify our identity: usernames, passwords, signatures, keys, cards etc. Biometrics allow us to authenticate ourselves with things that we carry with us wherever we may go, such as our hands, eyes, voices, faces, fingerprints etc. In addition to the convenience, this can be much more effective; a key or card, for example, can fall into someone else's hands. The promise of ease and increased security are perhaps its most appealing features.
Biometrics is seen by many as a solution to a lot of the user identification and security problems in today’s networks. Password abuse and misuse, intentional and inadvertent is a gaping hole in network security. This results mainly from human error, carelessness and in some case maliciousness. This removes human error from the security equation. Our paper will examine all the technological and feasibility aspects as well as the practical applications. We will look at many different biometric methods of identifying the user. The presentation has been divided into the following areas:
What is biometrics?
History of biometrics,
How the system works?
Different methodologies,
Multimodal biometrics
Several applications of biometrics,
Fingerprint analysis,
Benefits of using biometrics,
Drawbacks.
The presentation highlights the need of biometric pattern matching in our day-to-day lives, how the system works, and different identification methodologies like the fingerprint identification, hand geometry, iris scanning, retinal scanning etc. Besides single biometrics identification based on a multi-modal form of biometrics system or multiple biometrics represents an emerging trend. In this presentation we focus on fingerprint matching and its practical implementation where we compare two fingerprints and display whether they are equal or not. Among all the biometric techniques, fingerprint-based identification is the oldest method, which has been successfully used in numerous applications.
