Cross-view gait recognition authenticates a person using a pair of gait image sequences
with different observation views. View difference causes degradation of gait recognition …

Overlapped speech is referred to a monophonic audio signal in which at least two speakers
are present at the same time. In this study, the focus is on distinguishing overlapped from …

As biometric technology is increasingly deployed, it will be common to replace parts of
operational systems with newer designs. The cost and inconvenience of reacquiring …

Cloud computing represents one of the fastest growing areas of technology and offers a new
computing model for various applications and services. This model is particularly interesting …

Matching infrared (IR) facial probes against a gallery of visible light faces remains a
challenge, especially when combined with cross-distance due to deteriorated quality of the …

Abstract 1 This Thesis is focused on the quality assessment of biometric signals and its
application to multimodal biometric systems. Since the establishment of biometrics as an …

Assessing the impact of ageing on biometric systems is an important challenge. In this
paper, an i-vector speaker verification framework is used to evaluate the impact of long-term …

In recent years, our society has rapidly evolved and been digitalized. These deep-rooted
changes affect every citizen's life, be it through government and commerce, communication …

One of the most promising ways to improve biometric person recognition is indisputably via
information fusion, that is, to combine different sources of information. This pa per proposes …

The process of ageing causes changes to the voice over time. There have been significant
research efforts in the automatic speaker recognition community towards improving …