Far beyond Web searching, image indexing and retrieval can potentially be applied to many other areas, including biomedicine, space science, biometric identification, digital libraries, the military, education, commerce, cultural, and entertainment.
"There is an increasing interest in using eye tracking to help diagnose — and potentially treat –neurological disorders," says Bryn Farnsworth, science editor at biometric research company iMotions.
No longer the province of security services and science-fiction films, biometric technology is on the march.
These emerging biometric and bioinformatic approaches to plant sciences are critical for better understanding how morphology relates to ecology, physiology, genotype, and evolutionary and phylogenetic history.
The field of biometric face recognition blends methods from computer science, engineering and statistics, however statistical reasoning has been applied predominantly in the design of recognition algorithms.
Kung, M.W. Mak and S.H. Lin, "Biometric Authentication – A Machine Learning Approach", Prentice-Hall Information and System Science Series, (T. Kailath, Series Editor), 476 pages, 2005.
Your body is your password.Eye-scanning biometric technology played a prominent part in a recent science-fiction movie, "Minority Report".
Securics: The science of securityTMe, founded by T. Boult, provide revocable biometric tokens based on the BioToken approach [147].
Charles C. Tappert, a professor of computer science at Pace University, has also conducted research on the keystroke biometric, verifying identities by looking at the way students type their answers to questions on online tests.
Biometric authentication has never gained wide acceptance; other than a few high-security settings, it remains more science fiction than science fact.
