Optimisation of biometric ID tokens by using hardware/software co-design

• Published in: IET biometrics Vol. 1; no. 3; pp. 168 - 177
• Main Authors: Liu-Jimenez, J., Sanchez-Reillo, R., Mengibar-Pozo, L., Miguel-Hurtado, O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stevenage IET 01.09.2012; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Biometrics; Exact sciences and technology; Information, signal and communications theory; Pattern recognition; Signal processing; Telecommunications and information theory; Biometrics; Computation time; Codesign; Software; Pattern recognition; Safety; Automatic recognition; Implementation; Optimization

In current society, the necessity of recognising people is increasing every day. Logical or physical access is restricted to authorised users, which in many cases have to provide tokens where their personal information is stored. At the same time, biometrics proposes a feasible solution for the reco...