Biometric-Based Physical and Cybersecurity Systems

Introduction.- Part 1: Advances in Legacy Technologies.- Advances in Fingerprint Technology.- Recognition-based on Eye Biometrics Iris and Retina.- 3D Hand Geometry Recognition.- Fundamentals and Advances in 3D Face Recognition.- Part 2: Emerging Technologies.- Advances in Key Stroke Dynamics-based Security Schemes.- Behavioral Biometrics Based on Human-Computer Interaction Devices.- Continuous Authentication Using Writing Style.- Facets and Promises of Gait Biometrics Recognition.- Online Signature-based Biometrics Recognition.- EEG-based Biometrics.- Part 3: Hybrid Technologies.- Multimodal Biometrics Invariant Fusion Techniques.- Biometrics Based on Healthcare Sensors.- Biometric Authentication for Wearables.- Cognitive Biometrics for User Authentication.- Finger Knuckle based multi-biometrics authentication systems.- Part 4: Enabling Technologies.- Leveraging Cloud-based Resources for Automated Biometric Identification.- Automated Biometric Authentication with Cloud Computing.- Biometrics Security and Internet of Things.- Part 5: Technology and Society.- Protecting the Integrity of Elections using Biometrics.- Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Biometrics Technologies.- Conclusion.

Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS) is an internationally well-known academic/researcher/scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently the Chair and Full Professor of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University, NY, USA. Among his previous positions are Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University, Dean of the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University and Advisor to the President of Philadelphia University for Research, Development and Information Technology. He has received extensive research funding and has published Thirty Eight (38) books and over Six Hundreds (600) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on three more books. Mohammad is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, the FTRA Journal of Convergence and the KSIP Journal of Information Processing. He is also an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. Between 1991-2006, he served as a Technical Editor and an Area Editor of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulations (SCS) International, TSCS. He also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Simulation.
Professor Issa Traore has a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Ecole de l'Air Salon de Provence, France, MSc in computer engineering from the ENSAE (Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace) - Toulouse, France and a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Institute Nationale Polytechnique - Toulouse, France. Dr. Traore is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Plurilock Security Solutions Inc. Plurilock delivers biometrics security and online fraud detection solutions to the global market. Dr. Traore is also a