Biometrics: links to more resources

• General
• List of biometric companies
• Standards
• Consultants
• Books
• En français, compagnies situées en France

General

• The Biometric Consortium: a very good US starting point for any information related to biometrics.
• The Biometric Catalog website (US gov.) contains a nice list of government related biometrics documents.
• Biometrics information resource: another good site, full of links.
• IBIA International Biometric Industry Association: well, if you are a biometric vendor, you should know the IBIA, which will give the reference code ID of companies for the standards.
• Biometric Systems Lab University of Bologna: Unibo is the home of the FVC, the Fingerprint Verification Competition (Davide Maltoni).
• San Jose State University: (Jim Wayman)
• Biometrics library: Biometric Terms and related to Biometric Techniques
• Association for Biometrics: UK association, promoting biometrics
• Avanti: the independent non-profit web resource for biometrics.
• European biometric forum: created 2003, funded by the European Commission and Irish gov. Contains Biovision/Biosec reports.
• Biometric institute: the Biometrics Institute is an independent not-for-profit organisation (Australia).
• The Biometric Foundation: a US gov. sponsored foundation.
• US Department of Defense (Biometrics Management Office & Biometrics Fusion Center)
• Biometrics Research Homepage at MSU (Michigan university / Anil K. Jain)
• Center for Biometric Authentication and Testing Chinese Academy of Science
• Biometric Research Center (Hong-Kong)
• OnClick Biometric news

Espanol:

• Introducción a la biometría por Carlos Mauricio Galvis Traslaviña

Lists of biometric companies

• iFingerSys a nice list maintained by Geppy Parziale
• Biometric catalog from US government The Biometrics Catalog is a U.S. Government sponsored database of information about biometrics.
• CBEL lots of links.
• US Department of Defense DOD: the Biometrics Management Office is the focal point for all DoD biometric requirements.
• Biometric domains some links to biometric companies. (South Africa).
• Interrogative.net: yet another list of biometric companies.
• dmoz: yet another list of biometric companies.
• Biometric Information Directory: a list of biometric companies (+540). You need to subscribe.

Consultants

• IBG International Biometric Group: consultants, performing real-world tests of biometric systems and selling the reports.
• Acuity Market Intelligence: biometric market analysis.
• BiometriTech: a magazine with news. You can subscribe to the list for free.

Books

• Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition by Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, Salil Prabhakar (recommended)
• Biometrics by John D. Woodward Jr., Nicholas M. Orlans, Peter T. Higgins
• Biometrics: Advanced Identify Verification: The Complete Guide by Julian D. M. Ashbourn
• Biometrics: Identity Verification in a Networked World by Samir Nanavati, Michael Thieme, Raj Nanavati
• Introduction to Fingerprint Comparison by Gary W. Jones
• Intelligent Biometric Techniques in Fingerprint and Face Recognition by L. C. Jain, U. Halici, I. Hayashi, S. B. Lee, S. Tsutsui
• Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems by Nalini Ratha, Ruud Bolle
• Implementing Biometric Security by John Chirillo, Scott Blaul
• Two- and Three-Dimensional Patterns of the Face by Peter W. Hallinan, Gaile Gordon, Alan Yuille

Some special links

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