February 2005

Demo: Me, Myself and Eye

Anil Jain at Michigan State University seeks to improve security by integrating various types of biometrics.

By Robert Buderi

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Fingerprinting, iris scans, and face recognition may be cutting-edge identification technologies, but none alone is foolproof. At Michigan State University, Anil Jain seeks to dramatically improve security with three prototype systems that fuse several types of biometrics.

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	Multibiometrics Guest (Rachid Bencheikh) on 01/06/2006 at 8:48 AM
Posts: 1	Using Multibiometrics will improve security, there are some major issues to be solved but its a good start for biometric authentication in general. R. Bencheikh http://www.theBiometrix.com Rate this comment: (Reply)

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