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From Clothing to Identity: Manual and Automatic Soft Biometrics

Emad Sami Jaha, Mark S. Nixon
2016 IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security  
The automatically-and manuallyderived soft clothing biometrics are employed in challenging invariant person retrieval.  ...  In everyday life, several incidents and forensic scenarios highlight the usefulness and capability of identity information that can be deduced from clothing.  ...  subject retrieval using automatic and manual soft clothing biometrics in isolation and in fusion with other body-based soft biometrics.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tifs.2016.2584001 fatcat:ftt2pu4opnaatph7od6oiblu5q

Behavioural Biometrics and Human Identity [chapter]

Ben A. M. Schouten, Albert Ali Salah, Rob van Kranenburg
2012 The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology  
to shoe type, clothes, walking surface type, and view point.  ...  Multi Biometrics and Soft Biometrics The future of biometrics involves adapting biometrics to ever more challenging situations.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-94-007-3892-8_9 fatcat:yzam5sv2o5cwxfwni2kyplqbum

Ascertaining Human Identity in Night Environments [chapter]

T. Bourlai, N. Kalka, D. Cao, B. Decann, Z. Jafri, F. Nicolo, C. Whitelam, J. Zuo, D. Adjeroh, B. Cukic, J. Dawson, L. Hornak (+2 others)
2011 Distributed Video Sensor Networks  
Identification algorithms include face, iris, and gait recognition, supplemented by soft biometric features.  ...  We develop algorithms for human detection and tracking from night-time imagery at ranges between 5 and 200 meters.  ...  The authors are grateful to all colleagues and students, staff and faculty at West Virginia University for their support and assistance with the data collection process.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-127-1_30 fatcat:fwfhluzfwveqhbee3ryl4caizu

Human Identity Verification by Using Physiological and Behavioural Biometric Traits

S. M. E. Hossain, G. Chetty
2011 International Journal of Bioscience Biochemistry and Bioinformatics  
In this paper we survey several important research works published in this area and we found our new technology to identify a person using multimodal physiological and behavioural biometrics.  ...  Biometric authentication of a person is highly challenging and complex problem.  ...  That was a manual biometric authentication system and I can nominate the system as 1 st generation biometric identification system.  ... 
doi:10.7763/ijbbb.2011.v1.36 fatcat:k3stm6m245g23adv5gkqhnn5zi

Tattoo recognition technology - challenge (Tatt-C): an open tattoo database for developing tattoo recognition research

Mei Ngan, Patrick Grother
2015 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA 2015)  
A tattoo is an elective biometric trait that could contain more discriminative information to support person identification than traditional soft biometrics such as age, gender and race.  ...  Tattoos have been used for many years to assist law enforcement in investigations leading to the identification of criminals and victims.  ...  A tattoo is an elective biometric trait that could contain more discriminative characteristics and features for person identification than traditional soft biometrics such as age, gender, race, height,  ... 
doi:10.1109/isba.2015.7126369 dblp:conf/isba/NganG15 fatcat:bonft2v4vvgcflvqiblxr6hoge

Facial Soft Biometrics for Recognition in the Wild: Recent Works, Annotation, and COTS Evaluation

Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, Julian Fierrez, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez
2018 IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security  
We consider two assumptions: 1) manual estimation of soft biometrics and 2) automatic estimation from two commercial off-the-shelf systems (COTS).  ...  We observe that soft biometrics is a valuable complement to the face modality in unconstrained scenarios, with relative improvements up to 40%/15% in the verification performance when using manual/automatic  ...  SOFT BIOMETRICS In this section we describe the soft biometrics chosen and the manual and automatic procedures to estimate them. A.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tifs.2018.2807791 fatcat:iltcnvlejbhvhewtoansf26ora

On soft biometrics

Mark S. Nixon, Paulo L. Correia, Kamal Nasrollahi, Thomas B. Moeslund, Abdenour Hadid, Massimo Tistarelli
2015 Pattern Recognition Letters  
A further branch of this new field concerns approaches to estimate soft biometrics, either using conventional biometrics approaches or just from images alone.  ...  These three strands combine to form what is now known as soft biometrics.  ...  Acknowledgments This work has been partially supported by the European Commission COST Action IC1106 "Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age"  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2015.08.006 fatcat:h7jykhmqpvff5irda4xgrtpv4m

Estimating Body Related Soft Biometric Traits in Video Frames

Olasimbo Ayodeji Arigbabu, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad, Wan Azizun Wan Adnan, Salman Yussof, Vahab Iranmanesh, Fahad Layth Malallah
2014 The Scientific World Journal  
Our evaluation on 1120 frame sets of 80 subjects from a newly compiled dataset shows that the mentioned soft biometric information of human subjects can be adequately predicted from set of frames.  ...  Soft biometrics can be used as a prescreening filter, either by using single trait or by combining several traits to aid the performance of recognition systems in an unobtrusive way.  ...  Acknowledgment The authors would like to acknowledge the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education for the provision of Exploratory Research Grant Schemes through which this research was made possible.  ... 
doi:10.1155/2014/460973 pmid:25121120 pmcid:PMC4121156 fatcat:btlxhpikhzfqziaxrqxm3nugnu

A Survey on Soft Biometrics for Human Identification [chapter]

Abdelgader Abdelwhab, Serestina Viriri
2018 Machine Learning and Biometrics  
The ancillary information extracted from primary biometric (face and body) traits such as facial measurements, gender, color of the skin, ethnicity, and height is called soft biometrics and can be integrated  ...  This chapter provides a holistic survey on soft biometrics that show major works while focusing on facial soft biometrics and discusses some of the features of extraction and classification techniques  ...  However, soft biometric traits did not extract automatically, and the system is evaluated by 160 subjects only. Lee, Jain, and Jin et al.  ... 
doi:10.5772/intechopen.76021 fatcat:xn4snkgvbfb5fp2ndy7333ljpi

Soft Biometrics for Surveillance: An Overview [chapter]

D.A. Reid, S. Samangooei, C. Chen, M.S. Nixon, A. Ross
2013 Handbook of Statistics  
More recently, the use of soft biometric traits has been proposed to improve the performance of traditional biometric systems and allow identification based on human descriptions.  ...  Unlike many primary biometric traits, soft biometrics can be obtained at a distance without subject cooperation and from low quality video footage, making them ideal for use in surveillance applications  ...  Soft biometrics has been shown to provide secure continuous user authentication while being robust to the user's posture and not requiring manual registration of the soft biometric traits for each session  ... 
doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-53859-8.00013-8 fatcat:nbws56vqwbd5ncxdeop7zwqlmu

A Comprehensive Overview of Biometric Fusion [article]

Maneet Singh, Richa Singh, Arun Ross
2019 arXiv   pre-print
This paper presents an overview of biometric fusion with specific focus on three questions: what to fuse, when to fuse, and how to fuse.  ...  Multibiometric systems utilize the principle of fusion to combine information from multiple sources in order to improve recognition accuracy whilst addressing some of the limitations of single-biometric  ...  Singh and R. Singh are partially supported through the Infosys CAI at IIIT-Delhi.  ... 
arXiv:1902.02919v1 fatcat:4ujumax47vc5hgbddi666fkhda

Person Retrieval in Surveillance Using Textual Query: A Review [article]

Hiren Galiyawala, Mehul S Raval
2021 arXiv   pre-print
Such a description contains attributes like gender, height, type of clothing, colour of clothing, hair colour, and accessories. Such attributes are formally known as soft biometrics.  ...  It is also not feasible to manually search through huge volumes of surveillance footage to retrieve a specific person.  ...  We would also like to thank the vision and language domain's active researchers for creating publicly available challenging datasets.  ... 
arXiv:2105.02414v1 fatcat:ieipv7c255dztmznj4hwy6s7ta

Systematic Error Analysis for the Enhancement of Biometric Systems Using Soft Biometrics

Anastasios Drosou, D. Tzovaras, K. Moustakas, M. Petrou
2012 IEEE Signal Processing Letters  
This letter presents a novel probabilistic framework for augmenting the recognition performance of biometric systems with information from continuous soft biometric (SB) traits.  ...  The proposed approach is applied without loss of generality in the case of gait recognition, where two state-of-the-art gait recognition systems are considered as hard biometrics and the height and stride  ...  AUGMENTING RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE VIA SOFT BIOMETRICS Let be the set of all identities in the -sized user population be the hard biometric information (e.g., geometric gait) and be a continuous soft biometric  ... 
doi:10.1109/lsp.2012.2221701 fatcat:uycqbv6mibdzpj6xcsbkq7pgma

What Else Does Your Biometric Data Reveal? A Survey on Soft Biometrics

Antitza Dantcheva, Petros Elia, Arun Ross
2016 IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security  
In this paper, we provide an overview of soft biometrics and discuss some of the techniques that have been proposed to extract them from image and video data.  ...  Such attributes are known as soft biometrics and have applications in surveillance and indexing biometric databases.  ...  red shirt") or by automatically extracting soft biometric features from an input image and using these features to locate a matching individual in the video stream.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tifs.2015.2480381 fatcat:rmgdjjvbznchhdeib24bfzonki

Synthetic and privacy-preserving visualization of video sensor network outputs

Carmelo Velardo, Claudia Araimo, Jean-Luc Dugelay
2011 2011 Fifth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras  
A set of physical attributes, namely soft biometric characteristics, is used to provide the system with tracking capabilities.  ...  Thanks to this approach, it is possible (1) to synthesize multiple video outputs into a unique picture, and (2) to control privacy by offering the possibility to filter information to viewers.  ...  The colors of the square represent the upper and lower part of the clothes (i.e. torso/legs) obtained from the soft biometric signature computation.  ... 
doi:10.1109/icdsc.2011.6042938 dblp:conf/icdsc/VelardoAD11 fatcat:swddncoydnfcpjz3rkkwy6clse
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