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 - ...

Widespread acceptability and use of biometrics for person authentication has instigated several techniques for evading identification. One such technique is altering facial appearance using surgical procedures that has ...

Mobile-based branchless banking has become a key mech- anism for enabling financial inclusion in the developing re- gions of the world. A fundamental requirement of all branch- less banking systems is a mechanism to ...

We propose Stegobot, a new generation botnet that communicates over probabilistically unobservable communication channels. It is designed to spread via social malware attacks and steal information from its victims. ...

Network censorship and surveillance generally involves ISPs working under the orders of repressive regimes, monitoring (and sometimes filtering) users’ traffic, often using powerful networking devices, e.g. routers ...