Abstract

The ability to automatically recognize an individual has increasingly been acknowledged as a significant step in many application domains. In the last decade, several recognition and identification systems based on biometric measurements have been proposed. Many different biological signals have been utilized: fingerprints, face and facial features, retinal scans, iris patterns, hand geometry, DNA traces, and gait, and others. Not only have research tools been developed, but a notable number of new applications have been observed, making studies on biometrics a very stimulating but also a challenging arena.
All these issues pushed us to organize the 1st Summer School on Biometrics, which addressed the two facets of personal identity authentication: verification and identification. The school not only stressed the different techniques involved in the two processes, but also provided an in-depth roadmap on the algorithmic and technological issues involved in the development and integration of biometric systems.

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