Selfie Biometrics

Selfie Biometrics

This book highlights the field of selfie biometrics, providing a clear overview and presenting recent advances and challenges. It also discusses numerous selfie authentication techniques on mobile devices. Biometric authentication using mobile devices is becoming a convenient and important means of verifying identity for secured access and services such as telebanking and electronic transactions. In this context, face and ocular biometrics in the visible spectrum has gained increased attention from the research community. However, device mobility and operation in uncontrolled environments mean that facial and ocular images captured with mobile devices exhibit substantial degradation as a result of adverse lighting conditions, specular reflections and motion and defocus blur. In addition, low spatial resolution and the small sensor of front-facing mobile cameras further degrade the sample quality, reducing the recognition accuracy of face and ocular recognition technology when integrated into smartphones. Presenting the state of the art in mobile biometric research and technology, and offering an overview of the potential problems in real-time integration of biometrics in mobile devices, this book is a valuable resource for final-year undergraduate students, postgraduate students, engineers, researchers and academics in various fields of computer engineering.

英語島 English Island 第18期

遠征隊的盼望 「你們想出一本怎樣的雜誌？」 還沒有創刊之前，知道我們要出版英語島的人幾乎都問。 當時候的答案是：一本好看的雜誌。有中文，有英文，中英文是相互依存而不是相互解釋，反應著現實生活裡每一個想和世界交心的情境。真心這樣想的時候，看到什麼都是英語島： 老師和學生的互動變成洞察人性的詼諧筆記， 「burn the midnight oil」，一句不經意的英文背後透露出一群台灣人坐在教室土法煉鋼多年，說得就是不道地的遺憾， 矽谷和波蘭的台灣人，活出了第二語言故事裡的台灣靈魂…。這本雜誌不一樣，網路充斥碎裂的學習資訊，我們找到英文的感性配置。 做好一本雜誌的企圖，每一個月都得來一趟知識的遠征，想幫讀者在商業和社會能量的座標間，定位出「最重要的小事」--這一期是從電動遊戲找到抗癌方法；想找到一位老師，講一堂你從來沒機會聽到的英文人生課。編輯是對著空白的紙頁，想呼喚出一個時代，想衝出紙張的時代。 英語島上只有有兩種人，一種想讀一本好雜誌，一種想和我們一起編一本好雜誌。你是哪一種？

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