Advanced pattern recognition technologies with applications to biometrics / David Zhang [and others].

"Premier reference source"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book focuses on two kinds of advanced biometric recognition technologies, biometric data discrimination and multi-biometrics"--Provided by publisher.

Overview -- Section I: biometric discriminant analysis -- Discriminant analysis for biometric recognition -- Discriminant criteria for pattern classification -- Orthogonal discriminant analysis methods -- Parameterized discriminant analysis methods -- Two novel facial feature extraction methods -- Section II: tensor technology -- Tensor space -- Tensor principle component analysis -- Tensor linear discriminant analysis -- Tensor independent component analysis and tensor non-negative factorization -- Other tensor analysis and further direction -- Section III: biometric fusion -- From single biometrics to multi-biometrics -- Feature level fusion -- Matching score level fusion -- Decision level fusion -- Book summary.