A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings
Abstract As the number of passengers at border entry points such as airports and rail stations increases, so does the demand for seamless, secure, and fast biometric technologies for verification purposes. Although fingerprints are currently useful biometric technologies, they are intrusive and slow...
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| description | Abstract As the number of passengers at border entry points such as airports and rail stations increases, so does the demand for seamless, secure, and fast biometric technologies for verification purposes. Although fingerprints are currently useful biometric technologies, they are intrusive and slow down the end-to-end verification process, increasing the chances of tampering. Emerging as an alternative technology, soft biometrics have proven successful for non-intrusive and rapid verification. Soft biometrics consists of a large set of features from three different modalities of the human body, including the face, body, and essential & auxiliary attachments. This paper proposes a multi-channel soft biometrics framework that leverages soft biometrics technology over traditional biometrics. The framework encapsulates four distinct components: ApparelNet, which verifies essential and auxiliary attachments; A-Net, which measures anthropometric soft biometrics; OneDetect, which predicts global soft biometrics; and RSFS, which develops a set of highly relevant and supportive soft biometrics for verification. The proposed framework addresses several critical limitations of existing biometrics technologies during the verification process at border entry points, such as intrusive behavior, response time, biometric tampering, and privacy issues. The proposed multi-channel soft biometrics framework has been evaluated using several benchmark datasets in the field, such as Front-view Gait (FVG), Pedestrian Attribute Recognition At Far Distance (PETA), and Multimedia and Vision (MMV) Pedestrian. Using heterogeneous datasets enables the testing of each framework component or channel against numerous constrained and unconstrained scenarios. The outcome of the envisioned multi-channel soft biometrics framework is presented based on distinct outcomes from each channel, but it remains focused on determining a single cumulative verification score for verification at border control. In addition, this multi-channel soft biometrics framework has extended applications in several fields, including crowd surveillance, the fashion industry, and e-learning. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1bb7b5b59cce4430abe306c9bd56e4172023-06-18T11:28:03ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing1687-61802023-06-012023112410.1186/s13634-023-01026-xA multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossingsBilal Hassan0Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi1Mubashir Ali2Ali K. Bashir3Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University UKSchool of Computing and Engineering, University of West LondonSchool of Computer Science, University of BirminghamDepartment of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityAbstract As the number of passengers at border entry points such as airports and rail stations increases, so does the demand for seamless, secure, and fast biometric technologies for verification purposes. Although fingerprints are currently useful biometric technologies, they are intrusive and slow down the end-to-end verification process, increasing the chances of tampering. Emerging as an alternative technology, soft biometrics have proven successful for non-intrusive and rapid verification. Soft biometrics consists of a large set of features from three different modalities of the human body, including the face, body, and essential & auxiliary attachments. This paper proposes a multi-channel soft biometrics framework that leverages soft biometrics technology over traditional biometrics. The framework encapsulates four distinct components: ApparelNet, which verifies essential and auxiliary attachments; A-Net, which measures anthropometric soft biometrics; OneDetect, which predicts global soft biometrics; and RSFS, which develops a set of highly relevant and supportive soft biometrics for verification. The proposed framework addresses several critical limitations of existing biometrics technologies during the verification process at border entry points, such as intrusive behavior, response time, biometric tampering, and privacy issues. The proposed multi-channel soft biometrics framework has been evaluated using several benchmark datasets in the field, such as Front-view Gait (FVG), Pedestrian Attribute Recognition At Far Distance (PETA), and Multimedia and Vision (MMV) Pedestrian. Using heterogeneous datasets enables the testing of each framework component or channel against numerous constrained and unconstrained scenarios. The outcome of the envisioned multi-channel soft biometrics framework is presented based on distinct outcomes from each channel, but it remains focused on determining a single cumulative verification score for verification at border control. In addition, this multi-channel soft biometrics framework has extended applications in several fields, including crowd surveillance, the fashion industry, and e-learning.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13634-023-01026-xAnthropometric soft biometricsBiometric tamperingBorder controlCrowd surveillanceMulti-channel soft biometrics framework |
| spellingShingle | Bilal Hassan Hafiz Husnain Raza Sherazi Mubashir Ali Ali K. Bashir A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Anthropometric soft biometrics Biometric tampering Border control Crowd surveillance Multi-channel soft biometrics framework |
| title | A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings |
| title_full | A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings |
| title_fullStr | A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings |
| title_full_unstemmed | A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings |
| title_short | A multi-channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings |
| title_sort | multi channel soft biometrics framework for seamless border crossings |
| topic | Anthropometric soft biometrics Biometric tampering Border control Crowd surveillance Multi-channel soft biometrics framework |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13634-023-01026-x |
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