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Over the past several decades national security concerns and the need to deter increasingly sophisticated fraudsters have driven the demand for a new generation of reliable person identification tools. Traditional identification technologies have been built around something a person has (such as an identification card) or something a person knows (such as a password), but to improve reliability, newer technologies are increasingly including something a person is, the physical and behavioral characteristics that define an individual. As technology continues to improve, the automatic recognition of a person based on physical or behavioral characteristics, referred to as biometric recognition ,used to assist with seems destined to have a profound impact on physical and cyber security while we progress through the twenty-first century.
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Mason, J.E., Traoré, I., Woungang, I. (2016). Introduction to Gait Biometrics. In: Machine Learning Techniques for Gait Biometric Recognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29088-1_1
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