Open source biometric recognition

The biometrics community enjoys an active research field that has produced algorithms for several modalities suitable for real-world applications. Despite these developments, there exist few open source implementations of complete algorithms that are maintained by the community or deployed outside a...

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Published in2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) pp. 1 - 8
Main Authors Klontz, Joshua C., Klare, Brendan F., Klum, Scott, Jain, Anil K., Burge, Mark J.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2013
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Algorithm design and analysis
Face
Face recognition
Libraries
Software
Software algorithms
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Summary:The biometrics community enjoys an active research field that has produced algorithms for several modalities suitable for real-world applications. Despite these developments, there exist few open source implementations of complete algorithms that are maintained by the community or deployed outside a laboratory environment. In this paper we motivate the need for more community-driven open source software in the field of biometrics and present OpenBR as a candidate to address this deficiency. We overview the OpenBR software architecture and consider still-image frontal face recognition as a case study to illustrate its strengths and capabilities. All of our work is available at www.openbiometrics.org.
DOI:10.1109/BTAS.2013.6712754