While passwords, by de nition, are meant to be secret, recent trends in the Internet usage have witnessed an increasing number of people sharing their email passwords for both personal and professional purposes. As ...

I study the market for consumer information. Firms cannot commit to privacy, so buyers anticipate disclosure of purchase history for targeted pricing. In the literature, strategic rejections of informative o ers make ...

Face recognition has found several applications ranging from cross border security, surveillance, access control, multimedia to forensics. Face recognition under variations due to pose, illumination, and expression has ...

For robust face biometrics, a reliable anti-spoofing approach has become an essential pre-requisite against attacks. While spoofing attacks are possible with any biometric modality, face spoofing attacks are relatively ...

Subclass discriminant analysis is found to be applicable under various scenarios. However, it is computationally very expensive to update the between-class and within-class scatter matrices. This research presents an ...

Latent fingerprint comparison evidences are used in the court of law for more than 100 years. Manual matching of latent fingerprints is challenged by subjectivity and inconsistency in terms of results and is not scalable ...

National governments know the Internet as both a blessing and a headache. On the one hand, it unlocks great economic and strategic opportunity. On the other hand, government, military, or emergency-services become vulnerable ...

One of the important cues in solving crimes and apprehending criminals is matching sketches with digital face images. This paper presents an automated algorithm that extracts discriminating information from local regions ...

Simultaneous latent fingerprints are a cluster of latent fingerprints that are concurrently deposited by the same person. Though ACE-V methodology provides the scientific basis for matching latent fingerprints, extending ...

There are many results on the possibilities of privacy leak in location-based services, and many remedies have also been suggested. In this paper, we look at this problem from an altogether different perspective - ...