Clustering is the unsupervised classification of patterns (observations, data items, or feature vectors) into groups (clusters). The clustering problem has been addressed in many contexts and by researchers in many disciplines; this reflects its broad appeal and usefulness as one of the steps in exploratory data analysis. However, clustering is a difficult problem combinatorially, and differences in assumptions and contexts in different communities has made the transfer of useful generic concepts and methodologies slow to occur. This paper presents an overview of pattern clustering methods from a statistical pattern recognition perspective, with a goal of providing useful advice and references to fundamental concepts accessible to the broad community of clustering practitioners. We present a taxonomy of clustering techniques, and identify cross-cutting themes and recent advances. We also describe some important applications of clustering algorithms such as image segmentation, object recognition, and information retrieval.

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Data clustering: a review

A major new professional reference work on fingerprint security systems and technology from leading international researchers in the field Handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive coverage of all major topics, concepts, and methods for fingerprint security systems This unique reference work is an absolutely essential resource for all biometric security professionals, researchers, and systems administrators

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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition

In order to ensure that the performance of an automatic fingerprint identification/verification system will be robust with respect to the quality of input fingerprint images, it is essential to incorporate a fingerprint enhancement algorithm in the minutiae extraction module. We present a fast fingerprint enhancement algorithm, which can adaptively improve the clarity of ridge and valley structures of input fingerprint images based on the estimated local ridge orientation and frequency. We have evaluated the performance of the image enhancement algorithm using the goodness index of the extracted minutiae and the accuracy of an online fingerprint verification system. Experimental results show that incorporating the enhancement algorithm improves both the goodness index and the verification accuracy.

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Fingerprint image enhancement: algorithm and performance evaluation

The objective of this paper is to give a comprehensive introduction to applied cryptography with an engineer or computer scientist in mind. The emphasis is on the knowledge needed to create practical systems which supports integrity, confidentiality, or authenticity. Topics covered includes an introduction to the concepts in cryptography, attacks against cryptographic systems, key use and handling, random bit generation, encryption modes, and message authentication codes. Recommendations on algorithms and further reading is given in the end of the paper. This paper should make the reader able to build, understand and evaluate system descriptions and designs based on the cryptographic components described in the paper.

[서평]「Applied Cryptography」

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Guide To Biometrics Springer Professional Computing

The invention provides a method, system, and program product for identifying an individual using biometric data based on the individual's brain. In one embodiment, the invention includes constructing a biometric signature based on at least one of: features within a two-dimensional scan of the individual's brain and a difference in features between at least two two-dimensional scans of the individual's brain.

Brain shape as a biometric

Deep Learning Models such as Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown great potential in various applications. However, these techniques will face regulatory compliance challenges related to privacy of user data, especially when they are deployed as a service on a cloud platform. Such concerns can be mitigated by using privacy preserving machine learning techniques. The purpose of our work is to explore a class of privacy preserving machine learning technique called Fully Homomorphic Encryption in enabling CNN inference on encrypted real-world dataset. Fully homomorphic encryption face the limitation of computational depth. They are also resource intensive operations. We run our experiments on MNIST dataset to understand the challenges and identify the optimization techniques. We used these insights to achieve the end goal of enabling encrypted inference for binary classification on melanoma dataset using Cheon-Kim-Kim-Song (CKKS) encryption scheme available in the open-source HElib library.

PPDL - Privacy Preserving Deep Learning Using Homomorphic Encryption

It has been shown that significant age difference between a probe and gallery face image can decrease the matching accuracy. If the face images can be normalized in age, there can be a huge impact on the face verification accuracy and thus many novel applications such as matching driver's license, passport and visa images with the real person's images can be effectively implemented. Face progression can address this issue by generating a face image for a specific age. Many researchers have attempted to address this problem focusing on predicting older faces from a younger face. In this paper, we propose a novel method for robust and automatic face progression in totally unconstrained conditions. Our method takes into account that faces belonging to the same age-groups share age patterns such as wrinkles while faces across different age-groups share some common patterns such as expressions and skin colors. Given training images of K different age-groups the proposed method learns to recover K low-rank age and one low-rank common components. These extracted components from the learning phase are used to progress an input face to younger as well as older ages in bidirectional fashion. Using standard datasets, we demonstrate that the proposed progression method outperforms state-of-the-art age progression methods and also improves matching accuracy in a face verification protocol that includes age progression.

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Back to the future: A fully automatic method for robust age progression

Several citizen service databases such as, police, national citizen identity, passport and vehicle registration, store both biographical and biometric information containing huge number of records Achieving scalability and high accuracy for a 1:N person identification task on these databases is a huge challenge In this work, we propose to use complementary information present in the biographical data along with biometric information of a user to improve 1:N person identification task for large systems We show that a likelihood ratio based method for score level fusion of the biometric and biographical classifiers results in high accuracy identification as compared to using only the biometric classifiers or the biographical classifiers

Nalini K. Ratha

Papers

Guide To Biometrics Springer Professional Computing

Brain shape as a biometric

PPDL - Privacy Preserving Deep Learning Using Homomorphic Encryption

Back to the future: A fully automatic method for robust age progression

Fusing biographical and biometric classifiers for improved person identification