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Table <strong>of</strong> Contents<br />

List <strong>of</strong> Tables xi<br />

List <strong>of</strong> Figures xiv<br />

Abstract xviii<br />

1 Introduction 1<br />

1.1 Biometric System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.1.1 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.1.2 Motivation behind Face-based Biometric System . . . . . . . . 3<br />

1.2 Multimodal Biometric System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.3 Brief Description <strong>of</strong> the Work Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.4 Overview <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Thesis</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

2 Literature Review 9<br />

2.1 Recent Approaches to Face Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

2.1.1 Template based Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

2.1.2 Geometry Feature based Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

2.2 Recent Approaches to Fingerprint Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

2.2.1 Preprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />

2.2.2 Feature Representation and Feature Extraction . . . . . . . . 28<br />

2.2.3 Fingerprint Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

2.3 Recent Approaches to Multiple Classifier Combination . . . . . . . . 32<br />

2.3.1 Architecture or Operational Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

2.3.2 Fusion Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

2.3.3 Fusion Levels and Methods <strong>of</strong> Integration . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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