Biometric authentication

Abstract

for particular applications. Indeed, biometric authentication can be realized in a contactless way that could be important for cultural aspects or reasons of hygiene. For all these motivations, biometrics is an emergent technology that could be more present in our daily life. The goal of this chapter is to make an overview of biometrics. We focus on the authentication process, whose goal is to verify the identity of an individual. Ideal biometric information must have multiple properties: