The tremendous world-wide interest in intelligent biometric techniques in fingerprint and face recognition is fueled by the myriad of potential applications, including banking and security systems. This book covers applications and techniques relevant to this field.

Introduction to Fingerprint Recognition, U. Halici, L.C. Jain, and A. Erol Fingerprint Feature Processing Techniques and Poroscopy, A.R. Roddy and J.D. Stosz Fingerprint Sub-Classification: A Neural Network Approach, G.A. Drets and H.G. Leljecstroem A Gabor Filter-Based Method for Fingerprint Identification, Y. Hamamoto Minutiae Extraction and Filtering from Gray-Scale Images, D. Maio and D. Maltoni Feature Selective Filtering for Ridge Extraction, A. Erol, U. Halici, and G. Ongun Introduction to Face Recognition, A.J. Howell Neural Networks for Face Recognition, A.S. Pandya and R.R. Szabo Face Unit Radial Basis Function Networks, A.J. Howell Face Recognition from Correspondence Maps, R.P. Wurtz Face Recognition by Elastic Bunch Graph Matching, L. Wiskott, J.-M. Fellous, N. Kruger, and C. von der Malsburg Facial Expression Synthesis Using Radial Basis Function Networks, I. King and X.Q. Li Recognition of Facial Expressions and Its Application to Human Computer Interaction, T. Onisawa and S. Kitazake