Advances in Biometric Person Authentication, 5th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, SINOBIOMETRICS 2004, Guangzhou, China, December 13-14, 2004, Proceedings

When Identity  Face Recognition: Technical Challenges and Research Directions.-  Recognition, Performance Evaluation and Synthetic Generation.- Recognising Persons by Their Iris Patterns.- Multiple Classifier Fusion for Biometric Authentication.- Performance Evaluation in 1 : 1 Biometric Engines.- Best Performing Biometric Engines.- Discussions on Some Problems in Face Recognition.- Improving Fingerprint Recognition Performance Based on Feature Fusion and Adaptive Registration Pattern.- Iris Recognition Based on Non-local Comparisons.- Palmprint Authentication Technologies, Systems and  Face Recognition.- Novel Face Detection Method Based on Gabor Features.- Optimal Shape Space and Searching in ASM Based Face Alignment.- Gabor Wavelet-Based Eyes and Mouth Detection Algorithm.- An Entropy-Based Diversity Measure for Classifier Combining and Its Application to Face Classifier Ensemble Thinning.- Estimating the Visual Direction with Two-Circle Algorithm.- Multiple Face Contour Detection Using Adaptive Flows.- Pose Normalization Using Generic 3D Face Model as a Priori for Pose-Insensitive Face Recognition.- Gabor-Based Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis for Pose Discrimination.- Robust Pose Estimation of Face Using Genetic Algorithm.- Facial Pose Estimation Based on the Mongolian Race's Feature Characteristic from a Monocular Image.- Boosting Local Binary Pattern (LBP)-Based Face Recognition.- Gabor Features Based Method Using HDR (G-HDR) for Multiview Face  Face Recognition Under Varying Lighting Based on Derivates of Log  A Fast Method of Lighting Estimate Using Multi-linear Algebra.- Face Recognition Using More than One Still Image: What Is More?.- Video-Based Face Recognition Using a Metric of Average Euclidean Distance.- 3D Face Recognition Based on G-H Shape Variation.- 3D Face Recognition Based on Geometrical Measurement.- 3D Face Recognition Using Eigen-Spectrum on the Flattened Facial  Building a 3D Morphable Face Model by Using Thin Plate Splines for Face Reconstruction.- 3D Surface Reconstruction Based on One Non-symmetric Face Image.- Recent Advances in Subspace Analysis for Face Recognition.- Component-Based Cascade Linear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition.- Unified Locally Linear Embedding and Linear Discriminant Analysis Algorithm (ULLELDA) for Face Recognition.- On Dimensionality Reduction for Client Specific Discriminant Analysis with Application to Face Verification.- The Solution Space for Fisher Discriminant Analysis and the Uniqueness Under  A Novel One-Parameter Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis for Solving Small Sample Size Problem in Face Recognition.- Fast Calculation for Fisher Criteria in Small Sample Size Problem.- Vision-Based Face Understanding Technologies and Their Applications.- International Standardization on Face Recognition Technology.- System Design and Assessment Methodology for Face Recognition Algorithms.- Baseline Evaluations on the CAS-PEAL-R1 Face Database.- An Efficient Compression and Reconstruction Method of Face Image for Low Rate Net.- How Can We Reconstruct Facial Image from Partially Occluded or Low-Resolution One?.- A Matrix-Oriented Method for Appearance-Based Data Compression - An Idea from Group Representation Theory.- Fingerprint  An Adaptive Fingerprint Post-processing Algorithm Based on Mathematical Morphology.- Fingerprint Image Segmentation by Energy of Gaussian-Hermite Moments.- Robust Ridge Following in  A New Approach for Fingerprint Minutiae Extraction.- A Top-Down Fingerprint Image Enhancement Method Based on Fourier Analysis.- Fingerprint Templates Combination.- Skeletonization of Fingerprint Based-on Modulus Minima of Wavelet Transform.- Transformation-Variants Estimation Using Similarity Relative Histogram Grouping  A Study of Minutiae Matching Algorithm Based on Orientation Validation.- Cascading a Couple of Registration Methods for a High Accurate Fingerprint Verification System.- A Hierarchical Fingerprint Matching Method Based on Rotation Invariant Features.- Phase-Correlation Based Registration of Swipe Fingerprints.- An Improved Method for Singularity Detection of Fingerprint Images.- Fingerprint Classifier Using Embedded Hidden Markov  A Robust Pseudoridges Extraction Algorithm for Fingerprints.- Iris Recognition.- Iris Image Capture System Design for Personal Identification.- An Iris Segmentation Procedure for Iris Recognition.- Zernike Moment Invariants Based Iris  Two-Dimensional Projection and Crossing for Iris Optimal Localization.- Speaker  Improvement of Speaker Identification by Combining Prosodic Features with Acoustic Features.- Bimodal Speaker Identification Using Dynamic Bayesian Network.- A Novel Pitch Period Detection Algorithm Based on Hilbert-Huang Transform.- Noisy Speech Pitch Detection Based on Mathematical Morphology and Weighted MACF.- Glottal Information Based Spectral Recuperation in Multi-channel Speaker Recognition.- Speaker Modeling Technique Based on Regression Class for Speaker Identification with Sparse  Other Biometrics.- Some Issues Pertaining to Adaptive Multimodal Biometric Authentication.- Protecting Biometric Data for Personal Identification.- Digital Curvelet Transform for Palmprint  On-line Writer Verification Using Force Features of Basic Strokes.- A Novel Force Sensitive Tablet for Handwriting Information Acquisition.- Shape and Structural Feature Based Ear Recognition.- LLE Based Gait Analysis and Recognition.- Personal Identification Using Knuckleprint.- AAM Based Matching of Hand Appearance for User Verification.